Wide bandwidth slow light using a Raman fiber amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6092-6098

  Sharping, Jay E ^a   Okawachi, Yoshitomo ^a   Gaeta, Alexander L ^a  

^a Department of Materials Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FIBER LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RAMAN SCATTERING; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FIBER-BASED SYSTEM; PULSE WIDTH; ULTRA-HIGH BANDWIDTH TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LASER PULSES;

EID: 24044436535     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006092     Document Type: Article

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