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Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light
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Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by P. W. Milonni

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The propagation of light in dispersive media is a subject of fundamental as well as practical importance. In recent years attention has focused in particular on how refractive index can vary with frequency in such a way that the group velocities of optical pulses can be much greater or much smaller than the speed of light in vacuum, or in which the refractive index can be negative. Treating these topics at an introductory to intermediate level, Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light focuses on the basic theory and describes the significant experimental progress made during the past decade.

The book pays considerable attention to the fact that superluminal group velocities are not in conflict with special relativity and to the role of quantum effects in preventing superluminal communication and violations of Einstein causality. It also explores some of the basic physics at the opposite extreme of very slow group velocities as well as stopped and regenerated light, including the concepts of electromagnetically induced transparency and dark-state polaritons. Another very active aspect of the subject discussed concerns the possibility of designing metamaterials in which the refractive index can be negative and propagating light is left-handed in the sense that the phase and group velocities are in opposite directions. The last two chapters are an introduction to some of the basic theory and consequences of negative refractive index, with emphasis on the seminal work carried out since 2000. The possibility that "perfect" lenses can be made from negative-index metamaterials-which has been perhaps the most controversial aspect of the field-is introduced and discussed in some detail.

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  • Title Fast Light, Slow Light and Left-Handed Light
  • Author P. W. Milonni
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 262
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher CRC Press
  • Date 2004-12-01
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780750309264 / 0750309261
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.36 x 0.7 in (24.08 x 16.15 x 1.78 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Physical optics, Quantum optics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005297021
  • Dewey Decimal Code 535

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  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2006, Page 33

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