Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses

@article{Liu2001ObservationOC,
title={Observation of coherent optical information storage in an atomic medium using halted light pulses},
author={Chien Liu and Zachary Dutton and Cyrus H Behroozi and Lene Vestergaard Hau},
journal={Nature},
year={2001},
volume={409},
pages={490-493}
}
• Published 25 January 2001
• Physics
• Nature
Electromagnetically induced transparency is a quantum interference effect that permits the propagation of light through an otherwise opaque atomic medium; a ‘coupling’ laser is used to create the interference necessary to allow the transmission of resonant pulses from a ‘probe’ laser. This technique has been used to slow and spatially compress light pulses by seven orders of magnitude, resulting in their complete localization and containment within an atomic cloud. Here we use…
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