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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Time- and frequency-domain hybrid optical memory: 1.6-kbit data storage in Eu(3+):Y(2)SiO(5)
Abstract:
We propose and demonstrate a novel type of frequency-selective optical memory that writes and reads the data in both the time domain and the frequency domain. Temporal 16-bit data were stored by accumulated-photon-echo bit-by-bit storage at 103 frequency addresses within the inhomogeneous line of the (7)F(0)-(5)D(0) transition of Eu(3+):Y(2)SiO(5), which yields a total memory capacity of 1.6 kbits in a single spot of 240-microm diameter. The keys to the success of this experiment are this material's long dephasing time and lack of spectral diffusion.
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