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Frontiers in Optics

Decay Time in a Cavity in Slow or Negative Light Regime

T. Lauprêtre, Sylvain Schwartz, Rupamanjari Ghosh, Iacopo Carusotto, Fabienne Goldfarb, Fabien Bretenaker

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the decay time of a cavity containing strong dispersion achieved through electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in 4He*. We show theoretically that this concept is no longer relevant in the case of strong negative dispersion.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2012.fth1g.3

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