{"id":181706,"date":"2024-01-30T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-slow-down-light-in-metasurfaces-with-record-low-loss"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:23:15","slug":"researchers-slow-down-light-in-metasurfaces-with-record-low-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/researchers-slow-down-light-in-metasurfaces-with-record-low-loss","title":{"rendered":"Researchers slow down light in metasurfaces with record low loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-slow-down-light-in-metasurfaces-with-record-low-loss3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The speed of light can be intentionally reduced in various media. Various techniques have been developed over the years to slow down light, including electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), photonic crystals, and stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS).<\/p>\n<p>Notably, researchers from Harvard, led by Lene Vestergaard Hau, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/17561\">reduced light speed<\/a> to 17 m\/s in an ultracold atomic gas using EIT, which sparked the interest in exploring EIT analogs in metasurfaces, a transformative platform in optics and photonics.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the benefits, slow-light structures face a significant challenge: Loss, which limits storage time and interaction length. This issue is particularly severe for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/metasurface\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">metasurface<\/a> analogs of EIT due to scattering loss of nanoparticles and sometimes absorption loss of materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speed of light can be intentionally reduced in various media. Various techniques have been developed over the years to slow down light, including electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), photonic crystals, and stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). Notably, researchers from Harvard, led by Lene Vestergaard Hau, reduced light speed to 17 m\/s in an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}