Observation of ultraslow and stored light pulses in a solid.

By A. Turukhin, V. Sudarshanam, M. Shahriar, J. Musser, B. Ham, P. Hemmer. Physical Review Letters, 2001

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Analogue Gravity (2005, background): “In particular the achievement of controlled slowdown of light, down to velocities of a few meters per second (or even down to complete rest) [160, 206, 52, 213, 308, 368, 347], has opened a whole new set of possibilities regarding the simulation of curved-space metrics via flowing dielectrics.”
Variable optical buffer using slow light in semiconductor nanostructures (2003, background): “There have been major breakthroughs recently in achieving slow or stopped light in atomic gases and solid-state material using EIT [4]–[8].”
Electromagnetically induced transparency : Optics in coherent media (2005, methodology): “The first successful demonstration of light “storage” in a solid was achieved by Turukhin and co-workers in Pr-doped Y2SiO5 after proper preparation of the inhomogeneously broadened material by a special optical hole- and antihole-burning technique Turukhin et al., 2001 .”
Quantum repeaters based on atomic ensembles and linear optics (2009, background): “Stopped light has also been observed in rare earth doped solids ( a Pr:Y2SiO5 crystal) (Turukhin et al., 2001).”
Enhancement of nonlinear effects using photonic crystals (2004, unknown): “Alternatively, one could use solid-state EIT material”