Slow Light Workshop 2006

Presentations - pdf format

Session 1 - Slow light basics

• Introduction – Christelle Monat
• Applications of slow light - optical buffers — Martijn de Sterke
• Generic Approach (I): EIT vs coupled resonators — Mike Steel
• Generic Approach (II): Raman & SBS & Nonlinear — Andrey Sukhorukov

Session 2 - Managing the delay-bandwidth product

• Dispersion engineering in 2D PCs — Tom White
• Fan approach — Ara Asatryan
• Plasmonics in PC — Ross McPhedran
• Gap solitons — Joe Mok
• Slow light diffraction management and spatio-temporal localization — Andrey Sukhorukov

Session 3 - Manipulating slow light

• How to measure slow light — Luke Stewart
• Slow light & coupling & losses — Boris Kuhlmey
• Adiabatic coupling method — Kokou Dossou (avi files: 1, 2 & 3)