• DocumentCode
    1770112
  • Title

    Heralded single photon storage in a room-temperature, broadband quantum memory

  • Author

    Michelberger, P.S. ; Nunn, J. ; Champion, T.F.M. ; Sprague, M.R. ; Kacmarek, K. ; Saunders, D. ; Kolthammer, W.S. ; Jin, X.-M. ; England, D.G. ; Walmsley, Ian A.

  • Author_Institution
    Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate storage of heralded single photons in a room-temperature quantum memory, a key step towards scalable quantum networks. We evaluate the photon statistics of the stored photons and discuss limitations from four-wave mixing noise.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; optical noise; optical storage; photon counting; quantum computing; four-wave mixing noise; heralded single photon storage; photon statistics; room-temperature broadband quantum memory; scalable quantum networks; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Four-wave mixing; Noise; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Photonics; Random access memory; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988745