Stopping light via hot atoms

O Kocharovskaya, Y Rostovtsev, MO Scully - Physical review letters, 2001 - APS
… a light pulse (ie, to bring it to a full stop) or even to make its group velocity negative in a
coherently driven Doppler broadened atomic medium via … is due to atomic motion and provides a …

[PDF][PDF] The art of taming light: ultra-slow and stopped light

Z Dutton, NS Ginsberg, C Slowe, LV Hau - Europhysics News, 2004 - europhysicsnews.org
… has now been observed in limited geometries in warm rubidium … We describe how cold
atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates have … If instead, 12) had been reached via spontaneous, …

Four-wave-mixing stopped light in hot atomic rubidium vapour

RM Camacho, PK Vudyasetu, JC Howell - Nature Photonics, 2009 - nature.com
… and then mapping the electric field to local atomic quantum-state superpositions. Here
we … We report on a pulse storage scheme in hot atomic rubidium vapour, in which a four-wave-…

Nobel Lecture: Laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms

WD Phillips - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1998 - APS
… To improve the heat transfer, we filled the spaces between … As in the experiments that stopped
atoms, we start with … second pulse of cooling light that stops the atoms before trapping them…

Self-stopping of light

M Arkhipov, R Arkhipov, I Babushkin, N Rosanov - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
… that light can bring itself to a complete standstill (self-stop) via self-… stopped [10–12] if the
pump in the EIT scheme is switched off, causing the polariton energy being stored in the atomic

Experimental evidence for the enhanced and reduced stopping regimes for protons propagating through hot plasmas

SN Chen, S Atzeni, T Gangolf, M Gauthier… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
stopping power are uncovered by the following approximate expression for the stopping
power of an elemental material, with atomic … possible employing usual visible light probes, due …

Stopping power beyond the adiabatic approximation

M Caro, AA Correa, E Artacho, A Caro - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
… dissipation channels that differ from heat transport, and may … stopping of a projectile Z 1 into
a target Z 2 is obtained via … of the target atoms, although in this work, all target atoms are kept …

Atomic Squeeze Play Stops Light Cold

D Voss - 2001 - science.org
atomic gases to grab light pulses, squeeze them into a smaller space, imprint them on atoms
The researchers speculate that such sleight-of-light tricks might one day be useful in the still …

Controlling photons using electromagnetically induced transparency

MD Lukin, A Imamoğlu - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
… the propagation through this atomic medium of a light field that … Experimental work on slow
group velocities in hot atomic … A dark-state polariton can be stopped and re-accelerated by …

Slow light via four-wave mixing in a hot rubidium vapour

DS Ding, ZY Zhou, BS Shi - Chinese Physics B, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
via a ladder-type configuration in a hot rubidium atomic vapour. We find for the first time, to
the best of our knowledge, that the generated light … of delayed or stopped light in FWM process…