Stopping Light All Optically

2003/12/03 by Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan · 6 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Photonic and Optical Devices #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.083901

18 pages including 3 figures. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett

arxiv created 2003/12/03 · openalex publication_date 2004/02/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

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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