If you thought you could write or store images only on paper, digital medium, then you are wrong. Physicists at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, and Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have tried and succeeded in storing letters and images in a gaseous medium. Gaseous medium goes against all the rules of permanency, but if the research goes along as it is planned, this may one day turn true. They have demonstrated how to store images in a warm atomic vapour and with this method, which is based on electro-magnetically induced transparency, one can store complex images for up to 30 microseconds in rubidium vapour. Converting optical information to atomic coherence could help in image processing, correlation applications, quantum information processing and quantum communication. Further research is planned to validate the technology, which at present, is at a very basic and nascent stage.
Via: Physorg
