<?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%">K. L. Tsakmakidis</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hess, O.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Slow and stopped light in metamaterials: The trapped rainbow</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering</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-s2.0-45149130207&amp;doi=10.1117%2f12.786348&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=15112240714d34a358eb697bf4692e76</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">6987</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We show how guided electromagnetic waves propagating along an adiabatically tapered negative-refractive-index metamaterial heterostructure can 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 delaybandwidth products (since a wave packet can be completely stopped and buffered indefinitely) and high, almost 100%, in/out-coupling efficiencies. By nature, the presented scheme invokes solid-state materials and, as such, is not subject to low-temperature or atomic coherence limitations. A wave analysis, which demonstrates the halting of a monochromatic field component travelling along the heterostructure, is followed by 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.</style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cited By 1</style></notes></record></records></xml>