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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 21: Poster I

Q 21.66: Poster

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 16:00–19:00, Lichthof

Towards Coherent Control of Photons using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency — •Andreas Neuzner, Eden Figueroa und Gerhard Rempe — Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany

Over the last decade the effect of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and the related effect of storage of light have received extensive attention as a potential candidate for the realization of quantum memories. Towards this goal several milestones have been reached, the most important being the storage of single photons using EIT [1]. Nevertheless, these experiments so far do not offer access to the temporal envelope of the single photon read back from the storage medium.

We envision a device that can store single photons and allows for full control over the temporal shape of the retreived photon. We have set up an EIT-experiment based on a ⁸⁷Rb vapour cell and store weak classical pulses. Currently a protocol to optimize the storage efficiency is being implemented [2] and we explore possibilities to employ this setup as a storage device for single photons generated from a cavity QED based source [3].

[1] M.D. Eisaman, A. André, F. Massou, M. Fleischhauer, A.S. Zibrov, and M.D. Lukin, Nature 438, 837 (2005).

[2] I. Novikova, A.V. Gorshkov, D.F. Phillips, A.S. Sørensen, M.D. Lukin, and R.L. Walsworth , PRL 98, 243602 (2007).

[3] M. Hijlkema, B. Weber, H.P. Specht, S.C. Webster, A. Kuhn, and G. Rempe, Nature Physics 3, 253 (2007).