Quantum storage and retrieval of light by sweeping the atomic frequency

2013/04/11 by H Kaviani, Hamidreza Kaviani, M Khazali +9 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Adiabatic process #Mechanical and Optical Resonators #Photon #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Photonic crystal #Photonics #Quantum #Quantum memory #Quantum optics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Quantum sensor #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/15/8/085029

published as New J. Phys. 15, 085029 (2013) · 15 pages, 8 figures

arxiv created 2013/04/11 · openalex publication_date 2013/08/28 · arxiv updated 2014/01/23 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We propose a quantum memory protocol based on dynamically changing the resonance frequency of an ensemble of two-level atoms. By sweeping the atomic frequency in an adiabatic fashion, photons are reversibly transferred into atomic coherences. We present a polaritonic description for this type of storage, which shares some similarities with electromagnetically induced transparency based quantum memories. On the other hand the proposed memory is also linked to the gradient echo memory due to the effective spatial gradient that pulses experience in the medium. We discuss a possible implementation of the protocol in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers.

Citations

• Modematching an optical quantum memory
• Multimodal Properties and Dynamics of Gradient Echo Quantum Memory
• Dark-State Polaritons in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency
• Stopping Light All Optically
• Analysis of a quantum memory for photons based on controlled reversible inhomogeneous broadening
• Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber
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