Slow light : invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light / Sidney Perkowitz.

Slow Light is a popular treatment of today's astonishing breakthroughs in the science of light. Even though we don't understand light's quantum mysteries, we can slow it to a stop and speed it up beyond its Einsteinian speed limit, 186,000 miles/sec; use it for quantum telecommunicati...

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Main Author: Perkowitz, Sidney
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub., ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. What is light? The mystery continues
  • Ch. 2. Why is light so fast?
  • Ch. 3. Can anything go even faster?
  • Ch. 4. Slow, stopped, fast, and backwards light
  • Ch. 5. Extreme and entangled light
  • Ch. 6. Invisibility
  • Ch. 7. Light fantasy to light reality.