Abstract
We report on the experimental realization of the storage of images in a hot vapor of Rubidium atoms. The images are stored in and retrieved from the long-lived ground state atomic coherences. We show that an image impressed onto a 500 ns pulse can be stored and retrieved up to later. The image storage is made robust to diffusion by storing the Fourier transform of the image.
- Received 5 December 2007
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.123903
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