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Slow Light with Integrated Gain and Large Pulse Delay

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: We demonstrate slow and stored light in Rb vapor with a combination of desirable features: minimal loss and distortion of the pulse shape, and large fractional delay (>10). This behavior is enabled by (i) a group index that can be controllably varied during light pulse propagation, and (ii) controllable gain integrated into the medium to compensate for pulse loss. Any medium with the above two characteristics should be able to realize similarly high-performance slow light.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.99.173604

Authors: Irina Novikova, David F. Phillips, Ronald L. Walsworth

Institutions: William & Mary, Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1990043558

FWCI: 4.501

Cites: 27

Cited by: 60

Related to: 10