@conference {Hess200897,
	title = {Slow and stopped light in metamaterials},
	booktitle = {2008 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, NUSOD{\textquoteright}08},
	year = {2008},
	note = {cited By 1},
	pages = {97-98},
	abstract = {We demonstrate the deceleration of guided electromagnetic waves propagating along an adiabatically tapered negative-refractive-index metamaterial heterostructure and show that light can ideally be brought to a complete halt. It is analytically shown that, in principle, this method simultaneously allows for broad bandwidth operation (since it does not rely on group index resonances), large delay-bandwidth products (since a wave packet can be completely stopped and buffered indefinitely) and high, almost 100 \% in/out-coupling efficiencies. The halting of a monochromatic field component travelling along the heterostructure is demonstrated on the basis of a wave analysis and confirmed in a pertinent ray analysis, which unmistakably illustrates the trapping of the associated light-ray and the formation of a double light-ray cone (optical clepsydra) at the point where the ray is trapped. This method for trapping photons conceivably opens the way to a multitude of hybrid optoelectronic devices to be used in quantum information processing, communication networks and signal processors and may herald a new realm of combined metamaterials and slow light research {\textcopyright} 2008 IEEE.},
	doi = {10.1109/NUSOD.2008.4668260},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-57649143249\&doi=10.1109\%2fNUSOD.2008.4668260\&partnerID=40\&md5=6d6229192fdff5b3231741d87b365ae4},
	author = {Hess, O. and Tsakmakidis, K.}
}
