Friday, 22. December 2006
Topic: SCIENCE - on December 22, 2006 at 2:56:00 PM CET
Japanese scientists cage light
Scientists have used silicon crystals to trap light and slow it down to the lowest speed ever recorded in the material. The breakthrough is a step towards light-based storage for quantum computers.
Researchers at Japanese telco NTT used man-made photonic crystals, which contain nanoscale holes, to achieve the feat. The cavity which controlled the light was less than ten millionths of a metre long.
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