Joint Summer Research Conference in the Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Modeling of Novel Optical Materials and Devices
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Boris Vainberg's Abstract

Slowing down of the wave packets in quantum graphs

The problem of creating compact optical delay devices is studied. One of possible applications of such a device is synchronizing the work of fast optical elements and much slower electronics. The goal is to find optical media where a delay accompanied by the transparency. It will be shown that an optical line which can be approximated by a necklace-type quantum graph has this property. The general truncated periodic Schrödinger operator also will be discussed. The work is joint with S. Molchanov.

Snowbird, Utah     June 11 - 17, 2005