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Using intense electromagnetic fields, it is now possible to tailor the absorption. amplification, and dispersion properties of multi-level atoms [1]. Dramatic examples include the reduction of the group velocity of a pulse of light to 17 m/s [2] and increasing the group velocity vg to values greater than c or even to negative values [3]. Very recently, pulses of light have been effectively stopped in an atomic medium and the information initially contained in the pulse is encoded reversibly in the atomic coherence [4].
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Gauthier, D.J., Stenner, M.D. (2003). Pulse propagation in a high-gain bichromatically-driven Raman amplifier. In: Bigelow, N.P., Eberly, J.H., Stroud, C.R., Walmsley, I.A. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VIII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8907-9_197
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