Tunable all optical delay via slow and fast light propagation in a Raman assisted fiber optical parametric amplifier: A route to all optical buffering

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 16, 2005, Pages 6234-6249

  Dahan, David ^a   Eisenstein, Gadi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BANDWIDTH; FIBER OPTICS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; RAMAN SCATTERING;

OPTICAL DELAY; PARAMETRIC GAIN; PICOSECOND PULSES; RAMAN PROCESS;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 24044494613     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.006234     Document Type: Article

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