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Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 783–786 (2001)

Storage of Light in Atomic Vapor

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D. F. Phillips, A. Fleischhauer, A. Mair, and R. L. Walsworth
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

M. D. Lukin
ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Received 22 December 2000; published in the issue dated 29 January 2001

We report an experiment in which a light pulse is effectively decelerated and trapped in a vapor of Rb atoms, stored for a controlled period of time, and then released on demand. We accomplish this “storage of light” by dynamically reducing the group velocity of the light pulse to zero, so that the coherent excitation of the light is reversibly mapped into a Zeeman (spin) coherence of the Rb vapor.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.783
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.783
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 03.67.-a
 
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