Stopping light all optically

被引：503

作者：

Yanik, MF ^{[1
]}

Fan, SH ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Stanford Univ, Ginzton Lab, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2004年 / 92卷 / 08期

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D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.083901

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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.

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