



@article {1180,
	title = {Universal Approach to Optimal Photon Storage in Atomic Media},
	journal = {Physical Review Letters},
	volume = {98},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007/3/19},
	abstract = {  We present a universal physical picture for describing storage and retrieval
of photon wave packets in a Lambda-type atomic medium. This physical picture
encompasses a variety of different approaches to pulse storage ranging from
adiabatic reduction of the photon group velocity and pulse-propagation control
via off-resonant Raman fields to photon-echo based techniques. Furthermore, we
derive an optimal control strategy for storage and retrieval of a photon wave
packet of any given shape. All these approaches, when optimized, yield
identical maximum efficiencies, which only depend on the optical depth of the
medium.
},
	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.123601},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604037v3},
	author = {Alexey V. Gorshkov and Axel Andre and Michael Fleischhauer and Anders S. Sorensen and Mikhail D. Lukin}
}
