<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hess, O.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsakmakidis, K.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Slow and stopped light in metamaterials</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008 International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices, NUSOD'08</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-57649143249&amp;doi=10.1109%2fNUSOD.2008.4668260&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=6d6229192fdff5b3231741d87b365ae4</style></url></web-urls></urls><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">97-98</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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 © 2008 IEEE.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cited By 1</style></notes></record></records></xml>