CUDOS researchers at the Australian National University and their collaborators have performed proof-of-principle experiments, demonstrating new possibilities for the realization of controlled mixing and interactions between optical pulses in the regime of slow-light, when velocity is reduced by orders of magnitude compared to the speed of light in vacuum.
OECC Postdeadline "Experimental Observation of Slow Light Tunneling in Coupled Periodic Waveguides" by Sangwoo Ha, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, David A. Powell, Ilya V. Shadrivov, Andrei V. Lavrinenko, Dmitry N. Chigrin, and Yuri S. Kivshar
The figure shows an experimental evidence of mode mixing resulting in periodic energy redistribution between the coupled waveguides, when the speed of light is reduced by a factor of 23. |
