Light transmission through and its complete stoppage in an ultra slow wave optical medium
arXiv:1306.1353
Abstract
Light Wave transmission -- its compression, amplification, and the optical energy storage -- in an Ultra Slow Wave Medium (USWM) is studied analytically. Our phenomenological treatment is based entirely on the continuity equation for the optical energy flux, and the well known distribution-product property of Dirac delta-function. The results so obtained provide a clear understanding of some recent experiments on light transmission and its complete stoppage in an USWM. Keywords : Ultra slow light, stopped light, slow wave medium, EIT.
(single-column 5pages PDF). Simple class-room phenomenological model of stopped light. Comments most welcome