Physical Review A

Optically controlled delays for broadband pulses

Qingqing Sun, Yuri V. Rostovtsev, Jonathan P. Dowling, Marlan O. Scully, Muhammad Suhail Zubairy

Published Sep 19, 2005• 61 citations

Abstract

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.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.72.031802

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