Freezing Light via hot gases

Details Freezing Light via hot gases Freezing Light via hot gases

2000-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001058v3

Physics

Quantum Physics

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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 ultra-slow EIT polariton is based on the spatial dispersion of the refraction index $n(\w,k)$, i.e., its wavenumber 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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