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Title: Ultra-broadband On-Resonance Quantum Storage in Hot Atomic Barium Vapor
Quantum memories are of critical importance to the scalability of quantum information processing and quantum technologies in communication, measurement, and computation. Here we present numerical simulation of the storage of ultra-broadband photons in hot atomic barium vapor, which allows for quantum memory operation at telecom wavelengths. We numerically calculate the optimal control field profiles for the storage process both through direct Nedler-Mead simplex search and by singular value decomposition of the storage kernel, where the latter guarantees optimality. We provide a physical interpretation of our numerical results related in part to recent work on Autler-Townes-Splitting (ATS) based quantum memory, and show saturation of the protocol-independent bound on storage efficiency imposed by the optical depth for pulses of duration 200 fs to 17.5 ps. In conclusion we provide an outlook for implementing these results experimentally.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1640968 1806572 1839177 1936321
PAR ID:
10208645
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
51st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume:
65
Issue:
4
Page Range / eLocation ID:
G02.00001
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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