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Open Letter to the OSA Topical Meeting "Slow and Fast Light"

Optics 2008-06-18 v1

Abstract

The question is raised about whether the pulse delay in a saturable absorber has anything to do with the "slow light" and group velocity reduction. We also wonder why the 40-years-old trivial interpretation of the effect remains so far ignored.

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@article{arxiv.0806.2732,
  title  = {Open Letter to the OSA Topical Meeting "Slow and Fast Light"},
  author = {E. B. Aleksandrov and V. S. Zapasskii and G. G. Kozlov and A. C. Selden},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0806.2732},
  year   = {2008}
}

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