Transverse drag of slow light in moving atomic vapor.

@article{Solomons2020TransverseDO,
  title={Transverse drag of slow light in moving atomic vapor.},
  author={Yakov Solomons and Chitram Banerjee and S. Smartsev and Jonathan R Friedman and David Eger and Ofer Firstenberg and Nir Davidson},
  journal={Optics letters},
  year={2020},
  volume={45 13},
  pages={
          3431-3434
        }
}
The Fresnel-Fizeau effect of transverse drag, in which the trajectory of a light beam changes due to the transverse motion of the optical medium, is usually extremely small and hard to detect. We observe transverse drag in a moving hot-vapor cell, utilizing slow light due to electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). The drag effect is enhanced by a factor 3.6Γ—105, corresponding to the ratio between the light speed in vacuum and the group velocity under EIT conditions. We study the… 
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