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Nature Photonics 1, 140 - 141 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2007.12

Slow light: Putting the brakes on images

Alexander L. Gaeta1

  1. Alexander L. Gaeta is in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA.
    e-mail: a.gaeta@cornell.edu


Slow light has captured the imagination of physicists for over a decade. Although single light pulses have been slowed down in a variety of settings, a group at Rochester University has now managed to delay an entire image for the first time.

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