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Scientists of Moscow State University together with their Japanese colleagues learned to change the polarization of the light flux, and also slow down its speed, and almost ten times.
As the researcher of this phenomenon Tatyana Dolgova from Moscow State University, its group has long been working with Japanese professor Mitsuteru Inoue and his colleagues from Toyohashi University of Technology. All these Fifteen years, scientists have jointly solved the problem slowing down the flow of light in these amazing in their properties nanostructures, the so-called magnetophonic crystals, which able to interact with light in a special way, changing it speed, polarization and some other parameters.
The idea of creating such crystals was proposed by a Japanese physicist Inoue back in 1998, but all this for a long time did not go beyond theoretical framework, while a joint group of Russian and Japanese scientists did not guess to use to slow down the speed of light is not optical resonators, but the old effect, open English physicist Faraday back in the nineteenth century.
As stated in the article on this discovery (magazine Physical Review Applied), slowing the speed of light can lie in the foundation of heavy duty light computers, ultrafast displays and fundamentally new computer networks. However, Tatyana Dolgova clarifies that it’s too early to talk about it because they got the effect is still very small. However, the restrictions here are pure fundamental, not technical, so behind such tape recorders crystals, perhaps a great future.
