Optimal storage and retrieval of single-photon waveforms
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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Shuyu Zhou1, Shanchao Zhang, Chang Liu
1Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Optics Express
|November 29, 2012
Abstract:
We report an experimental demonstration of optimal storage and retrieval of heralded single-photon wave packets using electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in cold atoms at a high optical depth. We obtain an optimal storage efficiency of (49 ± 3)% for single-photon waveforms with a temporal likeness of 96%. Our result brings the EIT quantum light-matter interface closer to practical quantum information applications.
