Recent developments in the study of slow light in complex photonic materials

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis; Edmund I. Kirby; Ortwin Hess

doi:10.1117/12.848662

11 February 2010 Recent developments in the study of slow light in complex photonic materials

Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Edmund I. Kirby, Ortwin Hess

Proceedings Volume 7612, Advances in Slow and Fast Light III; 76120U (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848662
Event: SPIE OPTO, 2010, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We review recent theoretical and experimental breakthroughs in the realm of slow and stopped light in structured photonic media featuring negative electromagnetic parameters (permittivity/permeability and/or refractive index). We explain how and why these structures can enable complete stopping of light even in the presence of disorder and, simultaneously, dissipative losses. Using full-wave numerical simulations we show that the incorporation of thin layers made of an active medium adjacently to the core layer of a negative-refractive-index waveguide can completely remove dissipative losses - in a slow-light regime where the effective index of the guided wave is negative. We, also, review and compare several 'trapped rainbow' schemes that have recently been proposed for slowing and stopping light.

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Kosmas L. Tsakmakidis, Edmund I. Kirby, and Ortwin Hess "Recent developments in the study of slow light in complex photonic materials", Proc. SPIE 7612, Advances in Slow and Fast Light III, 76120U (11 February 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.848662

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