Electromagnetically induced transparency is an effect which allows the effective speed of light through a medium to be slowed by several orders of magnitude, or allows normally opaque objects to transmit light. This process allows the dramatic slowing of light executed by manipulation of Bose-Einstein Condensates, which has reduced light's measured velocity to a fraction of its normal speed - most popularly to that of a bicycle.

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• Harris, Steve (July, 1997). Electromagnetically Induced Transparency. Physics Today, 50 (7), pp. 36-42 (PDF Format)
• Zachary Dutton, Naomi S. Ginsberg, Christopher Slowe, and Lene Vestergaard Hau (2004) The art of taming light: ultra-slow and stopped light. Europhysics News Vol. 35 No. 2