pith. sign in

arxiv: quant-ph/0012138 · v1 · submitted 2000-12-23 · 🪐 quant-ph

Storage of light in atomic vapor

classification 🪐 quant-ph
keywords lightvaporpulsestorageaccomplishatomicatomscoherence
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

We report an experiment in which a light pulse is decelerated and trapped in a vapor of Rb atoms, stored for a controlled period of time, and then released on demand. We accomplish this storage of light by dynamically reducing the group velocity of the light pulse to zero, so that the coherent excitation of the light is reversibly mapped into a collective Zeeman (spin) coherence of the Rb vapor.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.