Slow light on a chip via atomic quantum state control

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 776-779

  Wu, Bin ^a   Hulbert, John F ^b   Lunt, Evan J ^b   Hurd, Katie ^b   Hawkins, Aaron R ^b   Schmidt, Holger ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b Brigham Young University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL ELECTRONICS; ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; HOLLOW-CORE WAVEGUIDES; INTEGRATED PHOTONICS; OPTICAL TRANSPARENCY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL WAVEGUIDE; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SLOW LIGHT; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 78049458860     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.211     Document Type: Article

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