Toward nonclassical light storage via atomic-vapor Raman scattering

Caspar H. van der Wal; M. D. Eisaman; A. S. Zibrov; A. Andre; D. F. Phillips; R. L. Walsworth; M. D. Lukin

doi:10.1117/12.497071

8 May 2003 Toward nonclassical light storage via atomic-vapor Raman scattering

Caspar H. van der Wal, M. D. Eisaman, A. S. Zibrov, A. Andre, D. F. Phillips, R. L. Walsworth, M. D. Lukin

Proceedings Volume 5115, Noise and Information in Nanoelectronics, Sensors, and Standards; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.497071
Event: SPIE's First International Symposium on Fluctuations and Noise, 2003, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Abstract

We present experimental work that investigates whether quantum information carried by light can be stored via reversible mapping of the quantum state of such light onto a collective atomic coherence. Such a quantum memory could be utilized to allow quantum communication over long, lossy channels. Current efforts concentrate on writing a photon-number-squeezed state of light onto a collective coherence between the ground-state hyperfine levels of ⁸⁷Rb atoms in a warm vapor cell, and subsequent on-demand retrieval of this light. In this approach, intensity squeezing between the written and retrieved photon fields provides evidence for storage of a photon-number-squeezed state of light. The scheme is based on spontaneous Raman transitions that create the atomic coherence, and at the same time convert control fields into signal fields that propagate under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency. We present experimental results demonstrating the storage and retrieval of light using this method, and discuss techniques for measuring intensity squeezing between these photon fields.

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Caspar H. van der Wal, M. D. Eisaman, A. S. Zibrov, A. Andre, D. F. Phillips, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin "Toward nonclassical light storage via atomic-vapor Raman scattering", Proc. SPIE 5115, Noise and Information in Nanoelectronics, Sensors, and Standards, (8 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.497071

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