A Primer to Slow Light
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
Laboratory-based optical analogs of astronomical objects such as black holes rely on the creation of light with an extremely low or even vanishing group velocity (slow light). These brief notes represent a pedagogical attempt towards elucidating this extraordinary form of light. This paper is a contribution to the book Artificial Black Holes edited by Mario Novello, Matt Visser and Grigori Volovik. The paper is intended as a primer, an introduction to the subject for non-experts, not as a detailed literature review.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0108085,
title = {A Primer to Slow Light},
author = {U. Leonhardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0108085},
year = {2007}
}
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Contribution to the book Artificial Black Holes edited by Mario Novello, Matt Visser and Grigori Volovik