Session O2: Optical Quantum Memory (Co-Sponsored by GQI)

8:00 AM–10:24 AM, Friday, May 30, 2008
Kern Building - 112

Chair: Barry Sanders, University of Calgary

Abstract: O2.00003 : Storage of squeezed light as a step towards universal quantum memory

9:12 AM–9:48 AM

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Author:

  Alexander Lvovsky
    (University of Calgary)

The ``holy grail'' of the quantum optical memory research is a system that would allow high fidelity storage and retrieval of an arbitrary optical state. We present a functioning testbed for such a system, which brings together the preparation of the quantum state, the memory cell, and full characterization of both the input and the retrieved state in a single apparatus. As demonstration of its capabilities, we report high-fidelity storage and retrieval of the squeezed vacuum state using electromagnetically-induced transparency in atomic rubidium vapor.