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The long march of slow photonics

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It is only in the past decade that the concept of slow wave propagation has penetrated the optical domain. Slow light has already been described by many researchers as a key to advances in optical signal processing, but in this new area many puzzles still have to be solved.

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  1. Department of Electronics and Information, Politecnico di Milano, Via Ponzio 34/5, Milano, 20133, Italy

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    Francesco Morichetti

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Melloni, A., Morichetti, F. The long march of slow photonics. Nature Photon 3, 119 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.8

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