Quantummemoryviaslowandstoppedlight.ppt

Quantum memory via slow and stopped light “Observation of Ultraslow and Stopped Light Pulses in a Solid ,” A.V. Turukhin, V.S. Sudarshanam, M. S. Shahriar, J. A. Musser, B.S. Ham, and P.R. Hemmer, Physical Review Letters 8802, p. 3602 (2002), preprint in: quant-ph/0010009; “Dark state polaritons in electromagnetically induced transparency,” Fleischhauer, Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, p 5094 (2000) EIT FOR SLOW LIGHT AND STORAGE COUPLING LASER PUNCHES HOLE IN ABSORPTION PROBE SEES TRANSARENCY DARK-RESONANCE ADIABATIC PASSAGE (ELECTROMAG. INDUCED TRANSPARENCY IN OPTICALLY DENSE MEDIA) “COUNTER-INTUITIVE” PULSE SEQUENCE COUPLING LASER PUNCHES HOLE IN ABSORPTION PROBE SEES TRANSARENCY WEAK PROBE COHERENTLY “ABSORBED” -- CAN BE RECOVERED * STOPPED LIGHT FOR QUANTUM STORAGE LIGHT STORAGE TECHNIQUES CAVITY QED AND TIME SYMMETRIC PULSES THEORETICALLY 100 % FIDELITY DIFFICULT TO IMPLEMENT EXPERIMENTALLY FIDELITY IN PRACTICE WILL BE LOW PHOTON ECHO ATOMS LEFT IN EXCITED STATE OPTICAL FID SIGNAL = LOSS RAMAN EXCITED SPIN ECHO NO OPTICAL FID 50 % OF ATOMS STILL EXCITED SLOW AND STOPPED LIGHT THEORETICALLY 100 % EFFICIENT EASY TO IMPLEMENT 99 % ALREADY STORED IN SLOW LIGHT LOSSES IN STOPPING TEHCNIQUE LESS CRITICAL W ATOM g COUPLING PROBE a b e e 1 2 3 TWO-FREQ. OPTICAL DATA R.F. OR 2-FREQ. REPHASE SPIN ECHOES OPTICAL READ OPTICAL COHERENCE FREQUENCY ?INHOMO TIME FIELD AMPLITUDE SLOW LIGHT BASICS ANY MATERIAL WITH NARROW TRANSPARENCY WINDOW GROUP VELOCITY DEPENDS ON SLOPE INFORMATION TRANSFER SPEED PROBE DETUNING (arb. units) 0 0.5 1 ABSORPTION -0.5 0 0.5 REAL PART of c SMALL CHANGE IN DIFFERENTIAL PHASE VELOCITY BIG CHANGE IN GROUP VELOCITY (“BEAT” WAVE FOR TWO FREQUENCIES) SLOW LIGHT MATERIALS ANY MATERIAL WITH NARROW TRANSPARENCY WINDOW FABRY-PEROT CAVITY SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING MATERIAL 0 0.5 1 REFLECTION FABRY-PEROT CAVITY LASER FREQUENCY SPECTRAL HOLE BURNING IN INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM ABSORPTION DIP wPROBE SLOWEST PROJECTED LIGHT SPEED IN SOLID: Equ