Bit error rates for a photon echo memory

Jin Youb Choi; John F. Walkup; Thomas F. Krile; David J. Mehrl

doi:10.1117/12.330424

5 November 1998 Bit error rates for a photon echo memory

Jin Youb Choi, John F. Walkup, Thomas F. Krile, David J. Mehrl

Proceedings Volume 3468, Advanced Optical Memories and Interfaces to Computer Storage; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330424
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1998, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The noise characteristics of the photon echo memory have been investigated. The photon echo memory has the ability to store many bits of information in a diffraction-limited spot, thereby dramatically increasing the storage density. The temporal Fourier transform of the input data sequence is written into the inhomogeneous absorption profile of the recording medium. Data are encoded by means of temporal modulation onto the waveform of a finite duration data beam. Individual bits are not localized to a specific spectral channel; instead, they are stored throughout a region of spectral-addressing space, In order to store and recall the input data accurately, the Fourier transform of the input data sequence must be narrower than the inhomogeneous bandwidth. In the photon echo memory mechanism, there are several factors affecting the system bit error rate such as finite-width write/read pulses, echo efficiency, shot noise, thermal noise, etc. The accuracy of the echo output depends on those system factors. In this paper we formulate a simple model of the photon echo system, and by analyzing this model we derive the relationship between the characteristics of the echo output signal and several factors such as the bandwidth of the system, echo efficiency, atom excited state population fluctuations, shot noise, and thermal noise.

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Jin Youb Choi, John F. Walkup, Thomas F. Krile, and David J. Mehrl "Bit error rates for a photon echo memory", Proc. SPIE 3468, Advanced Optical Memories and Interfaces to Computer Storage, (5 November 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330424

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