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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Transition between superluminal and subluminal light propagation based on classical two-wave mixing

Fang Bo, Guoquan Zhang, Jingjun Xu

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

By controlling the dispersion property of the phase coupling coefficient during the classical two-wave mixing process, the transition between the superluminal and the subluminal light was realized in a photorefractive Bi12SiO20crystal.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2006.4629097

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