“Storage” of light: a useful concept?

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-15-2002

Publication Title

Optics Communications

DOI

10.1016/S0030-4018(02)01684-X

ISSN

0030-4018

Abstract

We show both analytically and numerically that just fulfil the adiabatic condition is not sufficient to guarantee a production of a replica probe pulse in a Λ-system coupled to a probe and a coupling lasers. We show that in the adiabatic regime even with identical write (the first) and read (the second) coupling pulses, the regenerated optical field can have a pulse width that is very different from the original probe field. In this case, the regenerated pulse is not a faithful copy of the original probe pulse.

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