Applications of Slow Light in Telecommunications

Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier and Alexander L. Gaeta

Exotic effects such as slow light, fast light and even stored light have been observed in the laboratory. Now, optical scientists are turning their attention toward developing applications of slow light, including controllable optical delay lines, optical buffers and true time delay methods for synthetic aperture radar.

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