Photon lifetime in a cavity containing a slow-light medium release_sgu6aruqerg2jjbvzomdwhvroe

by Thomas LauprĂȘtre, Rupamanjari Ghosh, Fabien Bretenaker

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We investigate experimentally the lifetime of the photons in a cavity containing a medium exhibiting strong positive dispersion. This intracavity positive dispersion is provided by a metastable helium gas at room temperature in the electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) regime, in which light propagates at a group velocity of the order of 10000 m/s. The results definitely prove that the lifetime of the cavity photons is governed by the group velocity of light in the cavity, and not its phase velocity.
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