Slow light: From basics to future prospects

Photonics Spectra

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 44-50

  Gauthier, Daniel J ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^b   Boyd, Robert W ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT OPTICAL EFFECT; IMPURITY-DOPED SOLID; LOW-DENSITY ATOMIC VAPOR; RESONANT ATOMIC SYSTEMS;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COHERENT LIGHT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIGHT VELOCITY;

EID: 33646440503     PISSN: 07311230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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