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Light transmission through and its complete stoppage in an ultra slow wave optical medium
Light Wave transmission -- its compression, amplification, and the optical
energy storage -- in an Ultra Slow Wave Medium (USWM) is studied analytically.
Our phenomenological treatment is based entirely on the continuity equation for
the optical energy flux, and the well known distribution-product property of
Dirac delta-function. The results so obtained provide a clear understanding of
some recent experiments on light transmission and its complete stoppage in an
USWM.
Keywords : Ultra slow light, stopped light, slow wave medium, EIT.Comment: (single-column 5pages PDF). Simple class-room phenomenological model
of stopped light. Comments most welcom
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