Storing images in warm atomic vapor

M Shuker, O Firstenberg, R Pugatch, A Ron… - Physical review …, 2008 - APS
Reversible and coherent storage of light in an atomic medium is a promising method with
possible applications in many fields. In this work, arbitrary two-dimensional images are …

Light storage based on four-wave mixing and electromagnetically induced transparency in cold atoms

J Wu, Y Liu, DS Ding, ZY Zhou, BS Shi, GC Guo - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2013 - APS
We performed an experiment to observe the storage of an input probe field and an idler field
generated through an off-axis four-wave mixing (FWM) process via a double-Λ configuration …

Optical storage with electromagnetically induced transparency in a dense cold atomic ensemble

S Zhang, S Zhou, MMT Loy, GKL Wong, S Du - Optics letters, 2011 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally investigate optical storage with electromagnetically induced
transparency in a dense cold Rb85 atomic ensemble. By varying the optical depth (OD) from …

Storage of images in atomic coherences in a rare-earth-ion-doped solid

G Heinze, A Rudolf, F Beil, T Halfmann - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular …, 2010 - APS
We report on storage of images in atomic coherences driven by electromagnetically induced
transparency in a doped solid. We demonstrate image storage times up to the regime of …

Electromagnetically induced transparency‐based slow and stored light in warm atoms

I Novikova, RL Walsworth, Y Xiao - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This paper reviews recent efforts to realize a high‐efficiency memory for optical pulses using
slow and stored light based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in …

Manipulating the retrieval of stored light pulses

AK Patnaik, FL Kien, K Hakuta - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2004 - APS
We consider storage and retrieval of light based on electromagnetically induced
transparency in an atomic medium using nonadiabatic switching of a control field. We derive …

Storage and retrieval of multimode transverse images in hot atomic rubidium vapor

PK Vudyasetu, RM Camacho, JC Howell - Physical review letters, 2008 - APS
We report on the experimental realization of the storage of images in a hot vapor of
Rubidium atoms. The images are stored in and retrieved from the long-lived ground state …

Elimination of the diffraction of arbitrary images imprinted on slow light

O Firstenberg, M Shuker, N Davidson, A Ron - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We present a scheme for eliminating the optical diffraction of slow light in a thermal atomic
medium of electromagnetically induced transparency. Nondiffraction is achieved for an …

Light trapping in high-density ultracold atomic gases for quantum memory applications

IM Sokolov, DV Kupriyanov, RG Olave… - Journal of Modern …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
High-density and ultracold atomic gases have emerged as promising media for storage of
individual photons for quantum memory applications. In this paper we provide an overview …

Control of photon propagation via electromagnetically induced transparency in lossless media

L He, Y Liu, S Yi, CP Sun, F Nori - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2007 - APS
We study the influence of a lossless material medium on the coherent storage and quantum-
state transfer of a quantized probe light in an ensemble of Λ-type atoms. The medium is …