Lene HAU

Main achievements: Slowing and stopping a beam of light

https://scientificwomen.net/women/hau-lene-126

@metal-brain said
Main achievements: Slowing and stopping a beam of light

https://scientificwomen.net/women/hau-lene-126

Fascinating work.
Way beyond my understanding though, but fascinating all the same.

@divegeester
What I wonder is if you can stop light dead in its track, why couldn't that work as an energy storage battery? If you can keep stuffing the box with frozen light, isn't that a concentration of energy? If you can control the unfreezing part why would that not be a battery?

@sonhouse said
@divegeester
What I wonder is if you can stop light dead in its track, why couldn't that work as an energy storage battery? If you can keep stuffing the box with frozen light, isn't that a concentration of energy? If you can control the unfreezing part why would that not be a battery?

More than just a battery, even though that's amazing in itself, this seems capable of applications in communications, high-speed computing and data storage.

@sonhouse said
@divegeester
What I wonder is if you can stop light dead in its track, why couldn't that work as an energy storage battery? If you can keep stuffing the box with frozen light, isn't that a concentration of energy? If you can control the unfreezing part why would that not be a battery?

Because it would have to be at absolute zero. Same problem with superconductors.
EBC.