Freezing light: ultraslow EIT polariton in a three-level medium Conference Paper

abstract

• A large temporal dispersion accompanying electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) leads to drastic slowing down of the group velocity of light, vg = c/(dn()/dVLSTc. It is shown that using spatial dispersion, which is due to an atomic motion, it is possible to freeze the light or even reverse the direction of its propagation. Two different types of atomic motion are considered: uniformly moving atoms and atomic gas with a thermal distribution of the velocities in the cell which is at rest.

name of conference

• Conference Digest. 2000 International Quantum Electronics Conference (Cat. No.00TH8504)

authors

• Kocharovskaya, Olga
• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• Conference Digest. 2000 International Quantum Electronics Conference (Cat. No.00TH8504)

author list (cited authors)

• Kocharovskaya, O., Rostovtsev, Y., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 0

complete list of authors

• Kocharovskaya, O||Rostovtsev, Y||Scully, MO

publication date

• January 2000

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/iqec.2000.907898

start page

• 1

end page

• pp.