Coupled optical microresonators are one way of slowing down light. A new record has now been set for the length of these slow-light waveguides using an array of more than 100 photonic-crystal cavities.
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De La Rue, R. Slower for longer. Nature Photon 2, 715–716 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2008.238
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