Arbitrary-bandwidth brillouin slow light in optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1395-1400

  Herráez, Miguel González ^a,b   Song, Kwang Yong ^c   Thévenaz, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

ALL-OPTICAL BUFFERS; OPTICAL ROUTERS; PULSE LENGTH;

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 33144481179     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001395     Document Type: Article

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