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Ultrahigh reflection from a medium with ultraslow group velocity

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

We show that an incident wavepacket at the boundary to a medium with extremely slow group velocity, experiences enhanced reflection and a substantial spatial and temporal distortion of the transmitted wave packet. In the limit of vanishing group velocity, light cannot be transferred into the medium due to its perfect reflectivity.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0106104,
  title  = {Ultrahigh reflection from a medium with ultraslow group velocity},
  author = {V. V. Kozlov and S. Wallentowitz and S. Raghavan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0106104},
  year   = {2009}
}

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3 pages, 3 figures

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