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Atomic Gas Acts as Optical Switch

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Physicists at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville have created an all-optical switch using electromagnetically induced transparency in an optical ring cavity. The technique, which they reported at the 2002 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference in Long Beach, Calif., in May, promises applications in telecommunications and in optical computing. In electromagnetically induced transparency, which researchers have employed to "stop" light, a medium illuminated with one laser beam tuned to an atomic transition permits the passage of a weaker beam tuned to another transition....Read full article

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