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Dan's group December 2007

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Recent News

Out paper on transient light-matter dynamics and momentum redistribution resulting from recoil-induced resonances in a system of ultracold atoms appeared in Phys. Rev. A on March 25, 2009 (' Transient dynamics and momentum redistribution in cold atoms via recoil-induced resonances ') Phys. Rev. A, 79, 033414 (2009).

Our paper on burning a narrow hole in a broad SBS profile for possible classical information storage and photonic processing of RF signals appeared in the Oct. 15, 2008 issue of Optics Letters! (Room-temperature spectral hole burning in an engineered inhomogeneously-broadened resonance,' Opt. Lett. 33, 2374 (2008).).

Our paper on creating an optimum SBS slow light profile appeared on the Optics Express web site on Sep. 24, 2008! (`Observation of large 10-Gb/s SBS slow light delay with low distortion using an optimized gain profile,' Opt. Express 16, 16032 (2008).).

Stored Light!  Our paper on storing light in an optical fiber by converting the information to sound and back to light again appeared in the December 14 issue of Science Magazine.  See the link to the right to read more!  `Stored light in an optical fiber via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering,' Science 318, 1748 (2007).

Our paper on `Control of Electrical Alternans in Paced Myocardium Using Extended Time-Delay Autosynchronization,' appeared in Physical Review E (Phys. Rev. E 76, 041917 (2007)) and was selected for the November 1, 2007 issue of the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics.