A Primer to Slow Light
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Laboratory-based optical analogs of astronomical objects such as black holes rely on the creation of light with an extremely low or even vanishing group velocity (slow light). These brief notes represent a pedagogical attempt towards elucidating this extraordinary form of light. This paper is a contribution to the book Artificial Black Holes edited by Mario Novello, Matt Visser and Grigori Volovik. The paper is intended as a primer, an introduction to the subject for non-experts, not as a detailed literature review.
Contribution to the book Artificial Black Holes edited by Mario Novello, Matt Visser and Grigori Volovik
Contribution to the book Artificial Black Holes edited by Mario Novello, Matt Visser and Grigori Volovik