Trapping and storing light in /spl chi//sup (2)/ photonic crystals

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2004-04-05

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D'Aguanno, G.; et al.; Trapping and storing light in /spl chi//sup (2)/ photonic crystals; Postconference Digest Quantum Electronics and Laser Science, 2003. QELS; https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1276442

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Abstract

A study of parametric down-conversion in photonic crystals reveals that the probe field can be slowed down to 11 m/s: i.e. a tunneling velocity previously reported only for coherently resonant interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates.