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Phase-dependent decoherence of optical transitions in Pr3+:LaF3 in the presence of a driving field
The decoherence times of orthogonally phased components of the optical
transition dipole moment in a two-level system have been observed to differ by
an order of magnitude. This phase anisotropy is observed in coherent transient
experiments where an optical driving field is present during extended periods
of decoherence. The decoherence time of the component of the dipole moment in
phase with the driving field is extended compared to T_2, obtained from
two-pulse photon echoes, in analogy with the spin locking technique of NMR.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures; replaced with published versio
Analytic treatment of CRIB Quantum Memories for Light using Two-level Atoms
It has recently been discovered that the optical analogue of a gradient echo
in an optically thick material could form the basis of a optical memory that is
both completely efficient and noise free. Here we present analytical
calculation showing this is the case. There is close analogy between the
operation of the memory and an optical system with two beam splitters. We can
use this analogy to calculate efficiencies as a function of optical depth for a
number of quantum memory schemes based on controlled inhomogeneous broadening.
In particular we show that multiple switching leads to a net 100% retrieval
efficiency for the optical gradient echo even in the optically thin case.Comment: 10 page
Gradient Echo Quantum Memory for Light using Two-level Atoms
We propose a quantum memory for light that is analogous to the NMR gradient
echo. Our proposal is ideally perfectly efficient and provides simplifications
to current 3-level quantum memory schemes based on controlled inhomogeneous
broadening. Our scheme does not require auxiliary light fields. Instead the
input optical pulse interacts only with two-level atoms that have linearly
increasing Stark shifts. By simply reversing the sign of the atomic Stark
shifts, the pulse is retrieved in the forward direction. We present analytical,
numerical and experimental results of this scheme. We report experimental
efficiencies of up to 15% and suggest simple realizable improvements to
significantly increase the efficiency.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Quantum storage on subradiant states in an extended atomic ensemble
A scheme for coherent manipulation of collective atomic states is developed
such that total subradiant states, in which spontaneous emission is suppressed
into all directions due to destructive interference between neighbor atoms, can
be created in an extended atomic ensemble. The optimal conditions for creation
of such states and suitability of them for quantum storage are discussed. It is
shown that in order to achieve the maximum signal-to-noise ratio the shape of a
light pulse to be stored and reconstructed using a homogeneously broadened
absorbtion line of an atomic system should be a time-reversed regular part of
the response function of the system. In the limit of high optical density, such
pulses allow one to prepare collective subradiant atomic states with near flat
spatial distribution of the atomic excitation in the medium.Comment: V2: considerably revised (title, text). V3: minor changes - final
version as published in PR
Coherent control of collective spontaneous emission in an extended atomic ensemble and quantum storage
Coherent control of collective spontaneous emission in an extended atomic
ensemble resonantly interacting with single-photon wave packets is analyzed. A
scheme for coherent manipulation of collective atomic states is developed such
that superradiant states of the atomic system can be converted into subradiant
ones and vice versa. Possible applications of such a scheme for optical quantum
state storage and single-photon wave packet shaping are discussed. It is shown
that also in the absence of inhomogeneous broadening of the resonant line,
single-photon wave packets with arbitrary pulse shape may be recorded as a
subradiant state and reconstructed even although the duration of the wave
packets is larger than the superradiant life-time. Specifically the
applicability for storing time-bin qubits, which are used in quantum
cryptography is analyzed.Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PR
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Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Reducing decoherence in optical and spin transitions in rare-earth-ion doped materials
In many important situations the dominant dephasing mechanism in cryogenic
rare-earth-ion doped systems is due to magnetic field fluctuations from spins
in the host crystal. Operating at a magnetic field where a transition has a
zero first-order-Zeeman (ZEFOZ) shift can greatly reduce this dephasing. Here
we identify the location of transitions with zero first-order Zeeman shift for
optical transitions in Pr3+:YAG and for spin transitions in Er3+:Y2SiO5. The
long coherence times that ZEFOZ would enable would make Pr3+:YAG a strong
candidate for achieving the strong coupling regime of cavity QED, and would be
an important step forward in creating long-lived telecommunications wavelength
quantum memories in Er3+:Y2SiO5. This work relies mostly on published spin
Hamiltonian parameters but Raman heterodyne spectroscopy was performed on
Pr3+:YAG to measure the parameters for the excited state.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figure
Multi-Modal Properties and Dynamics of the Gradient Echo Quantum Memory
We investigate the properties of a recently proposed Gradient Echo Memory
(GEM) scheme for information mapping between optical and atomic systems. We
show that GEM can be described by the dynamic formation of polaritons in
k-space. This picture highlights the flexibility and robustness with regards to
the external control of the storage process. Our results also show that, as GEM
is a frequency-encoding memory, it can accurately preserve the shape of signals
that have large time-bandwidth products, even at moderate optical depths. At
higher optical depths, we show that GEM is a high fidelity multi-mode quantum
memory.Comment: 4 pages 3 figure
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