• DocumentCode
    2259634
  • Title

    Single-photon-level memory at room temperature

  • Author

    Reim, K.F. ; Michelberger, P. ; Lee, K.C. ; Nunn, J. ; Langford, N.K. ; Walmsley, I.A.

  • Author_Institution
    Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present an efficient broadband optical single-photon-level room-temperature memory, capable of operating with a low unconditional noise floor in the quantum regime, with memory efficiencies exceeding 30% and storage times of up to 4 μs.
  • Keywords
    optical noise; optical storage; quantum optics; broadband optical single-photon-level memory; quantum regime; room-temperature memory; temperature 293 K to 298 K; unconditional noise floor; Atom optics; Noise; Optical filters; Optical noise; Optical pumping; Photonics; Random access memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951436