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Chasing ‘slow light’
E. B. Aleksandrova, V. S. Zapasskiib a A. F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
b St. Petersburg State University, V. A. Fock Institute of Physics
Abstract:
A critical review of experimental studies on so-called ‘slow light’ arising due to the anomalously high steepness of the refractive index dispersion under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency or coherent population oscillations is presented. It is shown that a considerable amount of experimental evidence of the observation of ‘slow light’ is not related to the low group velocity of light and can be easily interpreted in terms of a standard model of interaction of light with a saturable absorber.
Received: January 26, 2006 Revised: February 16, 2006
Citation:
E. B. Aleksandrov, V. S. Zapasskii, “Chasing ‘slow light’”, UFN, 176:10 (2006), 1093–1102; Phys. Usp., 49:10 (2006), 1067–1075
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