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Slow light, fast computers

Nature Photonics volume 1, page 72 (2007)Cite this article

As everything else seems to get faster, why are scientists trying to slow light down? David Gevaux spoke to Fengnian Xia and Yurii Vlasov at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center to find out.

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Gevaux, D. Slow light, fast computers. Nature Photon 1, 72 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2006.66

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