Slow light in semiconductor quantum wells

Forrest Sedgwick, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain, Phedon Palinginis, Tao Li, Hailin Wang, Shu‐Wei Chang, S. L. Chuang

Optics Letters · 2004 · 304 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

We demonstrate slow light via population oscillation in semiconductor quantum-well structures for the first time. A group velocity as low as 9600 m/s is inferred from the experimentally measured dispersive characteristics. The transparency window exhibits a bandwidth as large as 2 GHz.

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