Harvard University - Light at the Speed of Zero
Lene Hau, the scientist who stopped light completely, then released it at will, is the recent recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship. Dr. Hau, along with 22 other recipients receives $100,000 a year for five years. According to the fellowship rules by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago, there are no stipulations on how the money is to be spent
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In the future, slowing light could have a number of practical consequences, including the potential to send data, sound, and pictures in less space and with less power. Also, the results obtained by Hau's experiment might be used to create new types of laser projection systems and night vision cameras with power requirements a million times less than what is presently possible.
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With this Bose-Einstein condensate, Hau and colleagues create an optical medium with unprecedented properties by illuminating the atom cloud from the side with a "coupling" laser beam.
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When atoms get extremely cold, a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, they lose their individual identities and blend together. At low enough temperatures, a collection of millions of atoms can behave like a single “superatom.” This collection is known as the “Bose-Einstein Condensate,”’
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