Fast Light, Slow Light, and Left-Handed Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: SciTech Book News | Date: June 1, 2006 | Copyright information

0750309261

Fast light, slow light, and left-handed light.

Milonni, P.W.

IOP Publishing Ltd.

2005

247 pages

$139.95

Hardcover

Series in optics and optoelectronics

QC446

How is light propagated in a dispersing media? What happens on media in which the refractive index can vary with frequency so the group velocities of optical pulses can be much greater or much smaller than the speed of light in vacuum, or in which the refractive index can be negative? Milonni (Los Alamos, New Mexico) starts by explaining ...

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