TIME-DOMAIN AND FREQUENCY-DOMAIN HYBRID OPTICAL MEMORY - 1.6-KBIT DATA-STORAGE IN EU3+ - Y2SIO5

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MITSUNAGA, M
YANO, R
UESUGI, N
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[1] NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Musashino-shi, Tokyo
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10.1364/OL.16.001890
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
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We propose and demonstrate a novel type of frequency-selective optical memory that writes and reads the data in both the time domain and the frequency domain. Temporal 16-bit data were stored by accumulated-photon-echo bit-by-bit storage at 103 frequency addresses within the inhomogeneous line of the 7F0-5D0 transition of Eu3+:Y2SiO5, which yields a total memory capacity of 1.6 kbits in a single spot of 240-mu-m diameter. The keys to the success of this experiment are this material's long dephasing time and lack of spectral diffusion.
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