Scientists have proposed a theoretical way that light could be slowed down to a complete stop, using something called “exceptional points”. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in ...

Physicists have just found a way to slow light down without touching or intercepting it, simply by making it ‘twist’ as it moves through space. That means they were able to make beams of light take ...

It is only in the past decade that the concept of slow wave propagation has penetrated the optical domain. Slow light has already been described by many researchers as a key to advances in optical ...

Researchers have created a gear-shaped photonic crystal microring that increases the strength of light-matter interactions without sacrificing optical quality. The result is an on-chip microresonator ...

The ability to stop light in its tracks by passing it through a cloud of ultracold atoms could lead to new techniques for optical storage Slow coach: Lene Hau with the laser system that her group uses ...

Integrated circuits are the brains behind modern electronic devices like computers or smart phones. Traditionally, these circuits—also known as chips—rely on electricity to process data. In recent ...

Physicists may soon create artificial black holes in the laboratory, analogous to the ones expected to lurk in distant space. A new study by a pair of theorists in Sweden describes how swirling clouds ...

Third-harmonic generation enhanced by slow-light pulses in a photonic crystal waveguide offers a way to generate green light emission from silicon. In fact, green laser light is commonly generated by ...

Light in an optical fibre has been slowed to a virtual standstill for the first time by a team of physicists in France and Austria. The technique makes use of an effect called electromagnetically ...