[time-nuts] atomic/chemical THz sampler

[Bruce Griffiths]

Electro-optic samplers are about the closest but they typically transform from time to spatial domain and have multibit resolution. The storage isnt atomic but in an image sensor attached to a spectroscometer.
http://beamdocs.fnal.gov/AD/DocDB/0025/002555/001/eos1.pdf


Bruce
> On 28 July 2019 at 17:37 Glen English VK1XX <glenlist at pacificmedia.com.au> wrote:
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> OK research people...since this forum is loaded with bleeding edge 
> understanding,  Is there such a thing in the lab as a material that can 
> store, in a 2 level (1 bit) format (or more) , a discrete time 
> representation of some event ?
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> In my simple example (dream), an arrangement of some molecular or some  
> quantum storage medium, that can store an event at discrete intervals of 
> say, 100fs  ? That is, the duration of the storage might be 1nS, storing 
> the state of something, at 100fs intervals (example ) ....having a  (for 
> example) sample storage of 10000 samples, and the ability to freeze that 
> event (in some atomic level memory) for later readout   once only or 
> continuously looped ?
> 
> No, I am not proposing this for my period /frequency analyser, I was 
> just wondering about super high speed digitization and storage of very 
> fast very short events.
> 
> -glen
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