@article {Tsakmakidis20124066,
	title = {Extreme control of light in metamaterials: Complete and loss-free stopping of light},
	journal = {Physica B: Condensed Matter},
	volume = {407},
	number = {20},
	year = {2012},
	note = {cited By 15},
	pages = {4066-4069},
	abstract = {We present an overview of recent advances within the field of slow- and stopped-light in metamaterial and plasmonic waveguides. We start by elucidating the mechanisms by which these configurations can enable complete stopping of light. Decoherence mechanisms may destroy the zero-group-velocity condition for real-frequency/complex-wavevector modes, but we show that metamaterial and nanoplasmonic waveguides also support complex-frequency/real-wavevector modes that uphold the light-stopping condition. A further point of focus is how, by using gain, dissipative losses can be overcome in the slow- and stopped-light regimes. To this end, on the basis of full-wave finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations and analytic transfer-matrix calculations, we show that the incorporation of thin layers made of an active medium, placed adjacently to the core layer of a negative-refractive-index waveguide, can fully remove dissipative losses in a slow- or stopped-light regime where the effective index of the guided lightwave remains negative. {\textcopyright} 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
	doi = {10.1016/j.physb.2012.01.093},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84865209961\&doi=10.1016\%2fj.physb.2012.01.093\&partnerID=40\&md5=7b5fad53e7561b713bac21c2ee18516e},
	author = {K. L. Tsakmakidis and Hess, O.}
}
