Universal Approach to Optimal Photon Storage in Atomic Media
Abstract
We present a universal physical picture for describing storage and retrieval of photon wave packets in a Lambda-type atomic medium. This physical picture encompasses a variety of different approaches to pulse storage ranging from adiabatic reduction of the photon group velocity and pulse-propagation control via off-resonant Raman fields to photon-echo based techniques. Furthermore, we derive an optimal control strategy for storage and retrieval of a photon wave packet of any given shape. All these approaches, when optimized, yield identical maximum efficiencies, which only depend on the optical depth of the medium.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0604037,
title = {Universal Approach to Optimal Photon Storage in Atomic Media},
author = {Alexey V. Gorshkov and Axel Andre and Michael Fleischhauer and Anders S. Sorensen and Mikhail D. Lukin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0604037},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures. V2: major changes in presentation (title, abstract, main text), simplification of derivations, new references. V3: minor changes - final version as published in Phys. Rev. Lett