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Phys. Rev. A 72, 031802(R) (2005) [4 pages]

Optically controlled delays for broadband pulses

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Qingqing Sun1, Yuri V. Rostovtsev1, Jonathan P. Dowling1,2, Marlan O. Scully1,3, and M. Suhail Zubairy1
1Department of Physics and Institute of Quantum Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242, USA
2Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001, USA
3Princeton Institute for Materials Research, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544-1009, USA

Received 3 May 2005; published 19 September 2005

We propose a scheme that provides large controllable delays for broadband optical pulses. The system is based on the steep dispersion of a coherently driven medium, in which the narrow electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) band is overcome by using spatial and temporal processing.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.031802
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.031802
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 42.65.Re
 
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