Slow and fast light in liquid crystal light valves.
We show that fast and slow light results from multiple scatterings in a liquid crystal light valve, where nondegenerate two-wave mixing occurs in the Raman-Nath regime of optical diffraction. The large nonlinear response and dispersive characteristics of the liquid crystals allow us to obtain group velocities as slow as less than 0.2 mm/s, which is attractive for the realization of ultrahigh precision interferometers and metrology measurements.
INLN, Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, 1361 route des Lucioles 06560 Valbonne, France.
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