| Title |
Slow, stored and stationary light / |
| Authors |
Fleischhauer, Michael ; Juzeliūnas, Gediminas |
| DOI |
10.1007/978-3-319-31903-2_15 |
| ISBN |
9783319319025 |
| eISBN |
9783319319032 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Optics in our time / Editors: Al-Amri, Mohammad D., El-Gomati, Mohamed, Zubairy, M. Suhail.. Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016. p. 359-383.. ISBN 9783319319025. eISBN 9783319319032 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Slow light ; Electromagnetically induced transparency ; Cold atoms |
| Abstract [eng] |
Slow light has received growing interest since 1999 when the propagation velocity of light was reduced in an experiment to 17 m/s, i.e. almost 20 million times slower than in vacuum. Two years later light pulses were stopped, or more specifically stored in an atomic medium and subsequently released after some time. This provided the basis for important applications in photon-based quantum information technology. The present chapter explains what slow light is and what it is good for, how to understand the physics of it and how one can practically make light go so slow. To answer these questions, the chapter uses simple pictures, on the one hand, and supplements them with a little bit of details, on the other hand, for those who want to go slightly deeper into the field. The chapter also discusses more recent generalizations of slow light, such as stationary and spinor slow light which are interesting model system and can be used to understand more complex quantum systems. |
| Published |
Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2016 |
| Type |
Book part |
| Language |
English |
| Publication date |
2016 |
