Slow, Stopped, Fast, and Backwards Light

Graham Welch, Marlan O. Scully

Robert W. Boyd, Daniel J. Gauthier

Jacob B. Khurgin

A tunable scheme for slowing down and stopping light using the backward frequency conversion in the quasi-phase-matched waveguides is proposed. It is shown that delay time ranging from a nanosecond to hundreds of microseconds can be obtained in few-centimeter-long GaAs-based structures with up to ten GHz bandwidths at moderate (few W) peak powers of coupling light. The proposed scheme also allows one to continuously change the frequency of the signal.

Preecha Yupapin, Jalil Ali

The behavior of light in nano/micro optical devices has shown promising results which can be useful for much fundamental and applied research, especially in nanoelectronics. In particular, with the manipulation of fast and slow light, Pornsuwancharoen and Yupapin [1] have proposed the use of a simple device called a microring resonator to perform such behavior, in which the four different behaviors of light, that is, fast, slow, stopping, and storing of light are investigated using a ring resonator. Nowadays, stopping or cooling a light beam has become a promising technique for atom/molecule trapping investigations (using static or dynamic tweezers), especially after the announcement of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics for the whispering gallery modes [2,3]. There are two more kinds of devices that are used to trap light beams: the use of microcavity arrays performed by Yanik and Fan [4], and the nonlinear microring resonator by Yupapin and Pornsuwancharoen [5] for stopping light (laser beam). Ang and Ngo have also recently done experiments in slowing light in microresonators using a microring system [6]. This concept is a concrete backbone for many applications.

Napatasakon Sarapat, W. Khunnam, Surasak Chiangga +4 more

Past and slow light behaviors are the interesting aspects of light which can be useful for many fundamental and applied researches. Pornsuwancharoen and Yupapin et al. [1] have proposed the use of a simple device called “microring resonator” to perform such behaviors. In this research work, the four different behaviors of light i.e., fast, slow, stopping and storing of light where investigated using a ring resonator. Nowadays, stopping or cooling light beam has become the promising technique for atom/molecule trapping investigations (using static or dynamic tweezers), especially, after the announcement of Nobel Prize 2012 in Physics on the whispering gallery modes [2, 3]. There are two more kinds of devices that can be used to trap light beams, the use of microcavity arrays performed by Yanik and Fan [4], and nonlinear microring resonator by Yupapin and Pornsuwancharoen [5] for stopping light (laser beam). Nanyang Technological University scientists have also done experiment to slowing the light in microresonators using a microring system recently [6]. This concept is a concrete backbone for many applications.