Optimizing the retrieval efficiency of stored light pulses

doi:10.1364/OE.17.006665

Optimizing the retrieval efficiency of stored light pulses

Thorsten Peters, Yi-Hsin Chen, Jian-Siung Wang, Yen-Wei Lin, and Ite A. Yu »View Author Affiliations

Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 8, pp. 6665-6675 (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.006665

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We study the retrieval efficiency of stored light pulses based on electromagnetically induced transparency in multiple simultaneously driven Λ-systems. The light pulses are stored in coherences between different Zeeman states of laser-cooled atoms. When the stray magnetic field from the environment is minimized by compensation coils we observed a smaller retrieved probe pulse amplitude than for a small externally applied magnetic field, i.e., a seemingly shorter coherence time. We identify this effect as a beating of several coherences due to a very small uncompensated dc magnetic stray field. By intentionally applying a small magnetic field larger than this stray field we were able to increase the retrieved probe pulse amplitude up to five-fold to the value determined by the true coherence time of our system.

OCIS Codes
(020.7490) Atomic and molecular physics : Zeeman effect
(190.0190) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics
(270.1670) Quantum optics : Coherent optical effects

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Quantum Optics

History
Original Manuscript: March 10, 2009
Revised Manuscript: April 4, 2009
Manuscript Accepted: April 4, 2009
Published: April 7, 2009

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Thorsten Peters, Yi-Hsin Chen, Jian-Siung Wang, Yen-Wei Lin, and Ite A. Yu, "Optimizing the retrieval efficiency of stored light pulses," Opt. Express 17, 6665-6675 (2009)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-8-6665

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Behroozi, C. H.
Ben-kish, A.
Chaneliere, T.
Chen, S.
Chen, Y.-A.
Chen, Y.-C.
Chen, Y.-W.
Chou, H.-C.
Chuu, C.-S.
Cirac, J. I.
Davidson, N.
Dutton, Z.
Dwivedi, P. P.
Firstenberg, O.
Fiurasek, J.
Fleischhauer, M.
Fry, E. S.
Ham, B. S.
Harris, S. E.
Hau, L. V.
Hemmer, P. R.
Hollberg, L.
Huang, J.-Y.
Imamoglu, A.
Jenkins, S. D.
Julsgaard, B.
Karpa, L.
Kash, M. M.
Kennedy, T. A. B.
Koch, M.
Kuzmich, A.
Lan, S.-Y.
Lin, Y.-W.
Lukin, M. D.
Marangos, J. P.
Matsukevich, D. N.
Musser, J. A.
Pan, J.-W.
Polzik, E. S.
Ron, A.
Rostovtsev, Y.
Sagi, Y.
Sautenkov, V. A.
Schmiedmayer, J.
Scully, M. O.
Shahriar, M. S.
Sherson, J.
Shuker, M.
Strassel, T.
Su, J.-J.
Sudarshanam, V. S.
Turukhin, A. V.
Vewinger, F.
Weitz, M.
Welch, G. R.
Yu, I. A.
Yuan, Z.-S.
Zhao, B.
Zibrov, A. S.

Nature

B. Julsgaard, J. Sherson, J. I. Cirac, J. Fiurasek, and E. S. Polzik, "Experimental demonstration of quantum memory for light," Nature 432, 482-486 (2004). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. V. Hau, S. E. Harris, Z. Dutton, and C. H. Behroozi, "Light speed reduction to 17 meters per second in an ultracold atomic gas," Nature 397, 594-598 (1999). [CrossRef]

Opt. Express

Y.-W. Lin, H.-C. Chou, P. P. Dwivedi, Y.-C. Chen, and I. A. Yu, "Using a pair of rectangular coils in the MOT for the production of cold atom clouds with large optical density," Opt. Express 16, 3753-3761 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Phys. Rev. A

Y.-C. Chen, Y.-W. Chen, J.-J. Su, J.-Y. Huang, and I. A. Yu, "Pump-probe spectroscopy of cold 87Rb atoms in various polarization configurations," Phys. Rev. A 63, 043808 (2001). [CrossRef]
M. Shuker, O. Firstenberg, Y. Sagi, A. Ben-kish, N. Davidson, and A. Ron, "Ramsey-like measurement of the decoherence rate between Zeeman sublevels," Phys. Rev. A 78, 063818 (2008). [CrossRef]
S. D. Jenkins, D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chaneliere, A. Kuzmich, and T. A. B. Kennedy, "Theory of dark-state polariton collapses and revivals," Phys. Rev. A 73, 021803 (2006). [CrossRef]
M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, "Quantum memory for photons: Dark-state polaritons," Phys. Rev. A 65, 022314 (2002). [CrossRef]

Phys. Rev. Lett.

A. V. Turukhin, V. S. Sudarshanam, M. S. Shahriar, J. A. Musser, B. S. Ham, and P. R. Hemmer, "Observation of Ultraslow and Stored Light Pulses in a Solid," Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 023602 (2001). [CrossRef]
C.-S. Chuu, T. Strassel, B. Zhao, M. Koch, Y.-A. Chen, S. Chen, Z.-S. Yuan, J. Schmiedmayer, and J.-W. Pan, "Quantum Memory with Optically Trapped Atoms," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 120501 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. M. Kash, V. A. Sautenkov, A. S. Zibrov, L. Hollberg, G. R. Welch, M. D. Lukin, Y. Rostovtsev, E. S. Fry, and M. O. Scully, "Ultraslow Group Velocity and Enhanced Nonlinear Optical Effects in a Coherently Driven Hot Atomic Gas," Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 5229-5232 (1999). [CrossRef]
D. N. Matsukevich, T. Chaneliere, S. D. Jenkins, S.-Y. Lan, T. A. B. Kennedy, and A. Kuzmich, "Observation of Dark State Polariton Collapses and Revivals," Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 033601 (2006). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
L. Karpa, F. Vewinger, and M. Weitz, "Resonance Beating of Light Stored Using Atomic Spinor Polaritons," Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170406 (2008). [CrossRef] [PubMed]
M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, "Dark-State Polaritons in Electromagnetically Induced Transparency," Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5094-5097 (2000). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Rev. Mod. Phys.

M. Fleischhauer, A. Imamoglu, and J. P. Marangos, "Electromagnetically induced transparency: Optics in coherent media," Rev. Mod. Phys. 77, 633-673 (2005). [CrossRef]

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