Slow light
Luz lenta
- Date
- 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- Stanford, California, United States
- Credited to
- Stephen E. Harris
- Field
- Communication
What was discovered
Slow light is the propagation of an optical pulse at a very low group velocity, achieved through electromagnetically induced transparency in atoms, first usefully demonstrated by Stephen Harris and collaborators.
What it led to
- optical storage of information (quantum memories)
- advances in optical communications and quantum computing
- studies of electromagnetically induced transparency
- extreme reductions of light speed in the laboratory