@conference {Tsakmakidis2010,
	title = {Recent developments in the study of slow light in complex photonic materials},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering},
	volume = {7612},
	year = {2010},
	note = {cited By 3},
	abstract = {We review recent theoretical and experimental breakthroughs in the realm of slow and stopped light in structured photonic media featuring negative electromagnetic parameters (permittivity/permeability and/or refractive index). We explain how and why these structures can enable complete stopping of light even in the presence of disorder and, simultaneously, dissipative losses. Using full-wave numerical simulations we show that the incorporation of thin layers made of an active medium adjacently to the core layer of a negative-refractive- index waveguide can completely remove dissipative losses - in a slow-light regime where the effective index of the guided wave is negative. We, also, review and compare several {\textquoteright}trapped rainbow{\textquoteright} schemes that have recently been proposed for slowing and stopping light. {\textcopyright} 2010 Copyright SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.},
	doi = {10.1117/12.848662},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77951695571\&doi=10.1117\%2f12.848662\&partnerID=40\&md5=d62f52e927c9b04589590acfa2003a51},
	author = {K. L. Tsakmakidis and Kirby, E.I. and Hess, O.}
}
