Duke Physics

Publications and Presentations

These publications and presentations are only for our information velocity research. For the group's full list, please visit the group's Publications and Presentations pages.

Publications

• Fast (but causal) information transmission in an optical material with slow group velocity submitted for publication
• M. D. Stenner, `Measurement of the Information Velocity in Fast- and Slow-Light Optical Pulse Propagation,'
  Duke University Ph.D. Dissertation, unpublished (2004).
  
• The speed of information in a 'fast light' optical medium
  Nature 425, 665 (2003)
  (Summary at Journal Website) (PDF 284 kB)
• Pump-beam-instability limits to Raman-gain-doublet `fast light' pulse propagation
  Phys. Rev. A 67, 063801 (2003)
  (Abstract at Journal Website) (PDF 107 kB)
• Slow and Fast Light,
  An Invited Chapter in Progress in Optics, Vol. 43, E. Wolf, Ed. (Elseivier, Amsterdam, 2002), Ch. 6, pp. 497-530.
  (preprint PDF 554 kB)

Presentations

• Observation of large fast light pulse advancement without distortion
  Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (CLEO/QELS)
  Baltimore, Maryland, June 1-6, 2003.
  (Summary)
• Information velocity in `fast light' optical pulse propagation
  2003 Annual Meeting of DAMOP
  Boulder, CO, May 21-24, 2003.
  
• The speed of information in fast light pulse propagation,
  Joint Workshop on Photonics in the 21st Century,
  National Chiao Tung University, Kaung Fu Campus, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 17-18, 2002.
  (Slides)
• Fast and Slow light,
  Department of Physics Colloquium, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, October 24, 2002.
  
• Large fast-light pulse advancement,
  Quantum Optics Mini Program, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara, CA, July 18, 2002.
  
• Instability limits to fast light propagation,
  2002 Annual Meeting of DAMOP, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, June 1, 2002.
  (Abstract and Slides)
• Instability Limits to Fast Light Pulse Propagation,
  CLEO/QELS (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference)
  Long Beach, CA, May 19-24, 2002.
  (Slides and Text)
• Fast and Slow light,
  Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography Colloquium, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, NC, April 26, 2002.
  
• Modulation-instability limits to fast light pulse propagation,
  XXXII Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, UT, January 10, 2002.
• Slow and Fast Light,
  68th Annual Meeting Southeastern Section Meeting of the APS, November 5, 2001, Charlottesville, VA.
• Pulse propagation in a high-gain bichromatically-driven Raman amplifier,
  Eighth Rochester Conference on Coherence & Quantum Optics Rochester, NY, June 13-16, 2001.
  (Summary)
• Quantum limits to superluminal pulse advancement,
  CLEO/QELS (Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics / Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference)
  Baltimore, MD, May 6-11, 2001.
  (Slides and Text)