Author:
Shinbrough Kai,Hunt Benjamin D.,Park Sehyun,Oolman Kathleen,Loveridge Tegan,Eden J. Gary,Lorenz Virginia O.
Abstract
We measure 95.6±0.3% storage efficiency of ultrafast photons in a collisionally broadened barium vapor quantum memory. We measure 31±1% total efficiency, limited by control field power, and a 0.515(6) ns lifetime, limited by motional dephasing.