Super efficient absorption filter for quantum memory using atomic ensembles in a vapor

Alexander Heifetz; Ashish Agarwal; George C. Cardoso; Venkatesh Gopal; Prem Kumar; M. S. Shahriar

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2004.01.006

Super efficient absorption filter for quantum memory using atomic ensembles in a vapor

Alexander Heifetz^*, Ashish Agarwal, George C. Cardoso, Venkatesh Gopal, Prem Kumar, M. S. Shahriar

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We demonstrate how a natural rubidium vapor cell can efficiently filter out a pump beam that produces an Raman gain in the stimulated Raman process at the D2 line of ⁸⁵Rb. We observe a Raman gain of at least 12 dB in ⁸⁵Rb when the pump beam is detuned below the first transition in ⁸⁵Rb, while being exactly on-resonance with the first transition in ⁸⁷Rb. With a single pass through a second cell, we observe an attenuation of at least 30 dB of the incoming pump at 2 mW, while the probe remained unaffected. This filtering process is critical to the realization of a single photon quantum memory based on vapor cells.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	289-293
Number of pages	5
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	232
Issue number	1-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2004.01.006
State	Published - Mar 1 2004

Keywords

Atomic
Ensambles
Memory
Quantum
Raman
Vapor

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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