Superluminal and slow light propagation in a room-temperature solid

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5630, 2003, Pages 200-202

  Bigelow, Matthew S ^a   Lepeshkin, Nick N ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CRYSTAL LATTICES; OSCILLATIONS;

COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATIONS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

LIGHT;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CRYSTAL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLID; TECHNIQUE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0038491297     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084429     Document Type: Article

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27. Supported by Office of Naval Research grant N00014-99-1-0539, Army Research Office grant DAAD19-01-1-0623, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) grant DE-FG02-01 ER15156, Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant F49620-00-1-0061, the U.S. DOE Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion under cooperative agreement DE-FC03-92SF19460, and the University of Rochester. The support of DOE does not constitute an endorsement by DOE of the views expressed in this article.