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Fabrication And Characterization Of Photonic Crystal Slow Light Waveguides And Cavities
Published on: November 30, 2012
Slowing down of light in photorefractive crystals with beam intensity coupling reduced to zero
A Shumelyuk1, K Shcherbin, S Odoulov
1Institute of Physics, National Academy of Sciences, 252650 Kiev, Ukraine.
Physical Review Letters
|February 9, 2005
Abstract:
A considerable deceleration of light pulses in crystals with nearly compensated space-charge field proves that the strong dispersion of dynamic photorefractive gratings in the vicinity of Bragg resonance is of primary importance for light slowing down.

