Slow and stopped light systems form an important piece of the photonics puzzle by acting as memory devices. When used with few-photon light levels, these devices are fundamental to applications in quantum information science, quantum computing, and quantum communication. We report on our progress implementing a technique 1 for measuring the quantum state of light that has been stored in a warm-vapor slow-light system. This technique does not require careful mode matching can in fact be used to optimize the measured eld mode without a prior knowledge of the stored light.

Date Published: 21 February 2014
PDF: 7 pages
Proc. SPIE 8998, Advances in Slow and Fast Light VII, 89980H (21 February 2014); doi: 10.1117/12.2047536

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 8998:
Advances in Slow and Fast Light VII
Selim M. Shahriar; Frank A. Narducci, Editor(s)