Time-bandwidth problem in room temperature slow light. Academic Article

abstract

• For many applications of slow or stopped light, the delay-time-bandwidth product is a fundamental issue. So far, however, slow-light demonstrations do not show a large delay-time-bandwidth product, especially in room temperature solids. Here we demonstrate that the use of artificial inhomogeneous broadening has the potential to solve this problem. A proof-of-principle experiment is done using slow light produced by two-beam coupling in a photorefractive crystal Ce:BaTiO3 where Bragg selection is used to provide the artificial inhomogeneity. Examples of how to generalize this concept for use with other room temperature slow-light solids are also given.

authors

• Hemmer, Philip
• Scully, Marlan
• Zubairy, Muhammad

published proceedings

• Phys Rev Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Deng, Z., Qing, D., Hemmer, P., Ooi, C., Zubairy, M. S., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 37

complete list of authors

• Deng, Zhijie||Qing, De-Kui||Hemmer, Philip||Ooi, CH Raymond||Zubairy, M Suhail||Scully, Marlan O

publication date

• January 2006

publisher

• American Physical Society (APS)  Publisher

published in

• Physical Review Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0299 Other Physical Sciences

PubMed Central ID

• 16486574

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.023602

start page

• 023602

volume

• 96

issue

• 2