part Part I: Fundamental Physics of Slow Lightin Different Media -- chapter 1 Slow Light in Atomic Vapors -- chapter 2 Slow and Fast Light in Semiconductors -- chapter 3 Slow Light in Optical Waveguides -- chapter 4 Slow Light in Photonic Crystal Waveguides -- part Part II: Slow Light in Periodic Photonic Structures -- chapter 5 Periodic Coupled Resonator Structures -- chapter 6 Resonator-Mediated Slow Light: Novel Structures, Applications, and Tradeoffs -- chapter 7 Disordered Optical Slow-Wave Structures: What Is the Velocity of Slow Light? -- part PART III Slow Light in Fibers -- chapter 8 Slow and Fast Light Propagation in Narrow Band Raman-Assisted Fiber Parametric Amplifiers -- chapter 9 Slow and Fast Light Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering: A Highly Flexible Approach -- part Part IV: Slow Light and Nonlinear Phenomena -- chapter 10 Nonlinear Slow-Wave Structures -- chapter 11 Slow Light Gap Solitons -- chapter 12 Coherent Control and Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Slow Light Media -- part Part V: Dynamic Structures for Storing Light -- chapter 13 Stopping and Storing Light in Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Optical Microresonators -- chapter 14 Stopping Light via Dynamic Tuning of Coupled Resonators -- part Part VI: Applications -- chapter 15 Bandwidth Limitation in Slow Light Schemes -- chapter 16 Reconfigurable Signal Processing Using Slow-Light-Based Tunable Optical Delay Lines -- chapter 17 Slow Light Buffers for Packet Switching -- chapter 18 Application of Slow Light to Phased Array Radar Beam Steering.