• DocumentCode
    732752
  • Title

    Bad cavities for good memories: Storing broadband photons with low noise

  • Author

    Nunn, Josh ; Champion, Tessa ; Munns, Joseph ; Cheng Qiu ; Saunders, Dylan ; Walmsley, Ian A.

  • Author_Institution
    Clarendon Lab., Univ. of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Quantum memories are vital for synchronising photonic operations. Broadband, room-temperature storage in Raman memories is hampered by four-wave mixing noise. Here we show how to eliminate the noise with a low-finesse cavity.
  • Keywords
    multiwave mixing; optical noise; optical storage; quantum optics; Raman memories; broadband photon storage; broadband room-temperature storage; four-wave mixing noise; low-finesse cavity; photonic operations; quantum memories; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Cavity resonators; Noise; Optical mixing; Optical pulses; Photonics; Random access memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183189