Slow light in cool atoms

Jon Marangos ()
Additional contact information
Jon Marangos: the Laser Optics and Spectroscopy Group, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6720, 559-560

Abstract: An experiment with atoms at nanokelvin temperatures has produced the remarkable observation of light pulses travelling at velocities of only 17 m s−1. The large optical nonlinearities seen in this system may open up new opportunities in quantum optics.

Date: 1999
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/17475 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:397:y:1999:i:6720:d:10.1038_17475

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/17475

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().