Abstract
Slow-light polaritons in a thermal vapor experience abnormal diffraction when detuned from a pump laser. Diffraction manipulation is demonstrated for a uniform pump, and a Schrödinger-like dynamics with induced vector-potential is demonstrated for structured pumps.
© 2010 Optical Society of America
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