Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 233903 (2004) [4 pages]Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced TransparencySee Also: Erratum Received 9 July 2004; published 1 December 2004 We introduce a new all-optical mechanism that can compress the bandwidth of light pulses to absolute zero, and bring them to a complete stop. The mechanism can be realized in a system consisting of a waveguide side coupled to tunable resonators, which generates a photonic band structure that represents a classical analogue of the electromagnetically induced transparency. The same system can also achieve a time-reversal operation. We demonstrate the operation of such a system by finite-difference time-domain simulations of an implementation in photonic crystals. © 2004 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.233903
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.233903
PACS:
42.60.Da, 42.50.Gy, 42.70.Qs
See AlsoErratum: Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Wonjoo Suh, Zheng Wang, and Shanhui Fan, Erratum: Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 233903 (2004)], Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 149901 (2007). |
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