Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor

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David F. Phillips · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

A. Fleischhauer · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

A. Mair · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

Ronald L. Walsworth · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

Mikhail D. Lukin · Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

Abstract

We report an experiment in which a light pulse is effectively 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 Zeeman (spin) coherence of the Rb vapor.

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Quantum optics and atomic interactions Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates

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Published in: Physical Review Letters

Volume 86, Issue 5, pp. 783-786

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.86.783

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 82.77

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Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor

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