Distortion management in slow-light pulse delay

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 25, 2005, Pages 9995-10002

  Stenner, Michael D ^a   Neifeld, Mark A ^a   Zhu, Zhaoming ^b   Dawes, Andrew M C ^b   Gauthier, Daniel J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAY CIRCUITS; GAIN CONTROL; LASER PULSES; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

DISTORTION MANAGEMENT; PULSE DELAY; PULSE DISTORTION;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 29044438903     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.009995     Document Type: Article

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