Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083901 (2004) [4 pages]Stopping Light All Optically
See accompanying Physics Focus We show that light pulses can be stopped and stored coherently, with an all-optical adiabatic and reversible pulse bandwidth compression process. Such a process overcomes the fundamental bandwidth-delay constraint in optics and can generate arbitrarily small group velocities for any light pulse with a given bandwidth, without any coherent or resonant light-matter interactions. We exhibit this process in optical resonators, where the bandwidth compression is accomplished only by small refractive-index modulations performed at moderate speeds. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.083901
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.083901
PACS:
42.70.Qs
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