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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 40, Issue 23, Pages 5582-5585Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.005582
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA8655-09-1-3020]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) [EP/K034480/1, EP/J000051/1]
- European Commission (EC) [PIEFGA-2013-62737, IEF-GA-2012-331859, IP SIQS (600645), PIIF-GA-2013-629229]
- European Research Council (ERC) (MOQUACINO)
- Royal Society
- Oxford RCUK Open Access Block Grant
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J000051/1, EP/K034480/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/J000051/1, EP/K034480/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Alkali-filled hollow-core fibers are a promising medium for investigating light-matter interactions, especially at the single-photon level, due to the tight confinement of light and high optical depths achievable by light-induced atomic desorption (LIAD). However, until now these large optical depths could only be generated for seconds, at most once per day, severely limiting the practicality of the technology. Here we report the generation of the highest observed transient (>10(5) for up to a minute) and highest observed persistent (>2000 for hours) optical depths of alkali vapors in a light-guiding geometry to date, using a cesium-filled Kagome-type hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF). Our results pave the way to light matter interaction experiments in confined geometries requiring long operation times and large atomic number densities, such as generation of single-photon-level nonlinearities and development of single photon quantum memories. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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