Open AccessSlow light with photorefractive beam fanning
Author(s) -
Nacera Bouldja,
Marc Sciamanna,
Delphine Wolfersberger
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.386254
Subject(s) - optics , photorefractive effect , light beam , beam (structure) , laser beams , phase conjugation , materials science , physics , laser
The beam fanning naturally occurring in a photorefractive crystal is shown to slow down a single light pulse at room temperature. Slow light is demonstrated for both visible and infrared wavelength light pulses as short as the response time of the photorefractive crystal and with fractional delay- i.e ratio of delay to output pulse duration- up to 0.4.