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Stopping Light via Hot Atoms

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Kocharovskaya, Olga, Rostovtsev, Yuri, Scully, Marlan O.·2001·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.86.628
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We prove that it is possible to freeze a light pulse (i.e., to bring it to a full stop) or even to make its group velocity negative in a coherently driven Doppler broadened atomic medium via electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). This remarkable phenomenon of the ultraslow EIT polariton is based on the spatial dispersion of the refraction index n(omega,k), i.e., its wave number dependence, which is due to atomic motion and provides a negative contribution to the group velocity. This is related to, but qualitatively different from, the recently observed light slowing caused by large temporal (frequency) dispersion.

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Authors
Kocharovskaya, O., Rostovtsev, Y., & Scully, M. O.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
2001-01-22
Volume
86
Issue
4
Pages
628-631
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.86.628
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W2042708831
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293
References
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15.09
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journal article
Language
en
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