Abstract

Coherent transient optical memories and signal processors (CTOMs and CTOPs) take advantage of an inhomogeneously broadened absorber (IBA) to store and process temporal waveforms with data bandwidths exceeding 10 GHz and with extremely high storage and processing densities.¹⁻³ The amount of bits that can be stored in a single laser spot in CTOMs and the time-bandwidth product of CTOPs are both limited by the homogeneous dephasing time of the optical transition employed, typically to a value over an order of magnitude less than the homogeneous dephasing time.¹⁻⁵ In this paper, we propose and demonstrate techniques to compensate for the deleterious effects of dephasing in CTOMs and CTOPs.

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