Slow light : invisibility, teleportation and other mysteries of light /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
©2011.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1848167539 9781848167537 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.