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Stored light jumps from here to there

Published Mar 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

In a performance more akin to a magic trick than a delicate optical experiment, physicists in the US have stopped a pulse of light in one location and then retrieved it unaffected in another. This extraordinary feat was carried out using Bose–Einstein condensates, and could one day allow optical information to be processed directly rather than electronically as it is in current communications networks.

DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/20/3/5

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