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Nature Photonics 3, 76 - 77 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2008.282
Atomic memory: A little nonlinear help
Michael Fleischhauer1
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Michael Fleischhauer is a member of the Department of Physics and the OPTIMAS research centre at the University of Kaiserslautern, Erwin-Schrödinger Strasse, D-67663 Kaiserslautern, Germany.
e-mail: mfleisch@physik.uni-kl.de
Abstract
Storing a light pulse in a vapour is by now a standard laboratory technique. For such optical memory to become truly practical, however, the fidelity of the technique has to be improved. Combining light storage with nonlinear wave mixing may offer a way forwards.
