Nearly transparent SBS slow light in an optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 16, 2006, Pages 7238-7245

  Zhu, Zhaoming ^a   Gauthier, Daniel J ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; OPTICAL FIBERS; RESONANCE; TRANSPARENCY;

ANTI-STOKES ABSORPTION; SIGNAL ATTENUATION; SLOW-LIGHT BANDWIDTH;

LIGHT;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 33746862512     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.007238     Document Type: Article

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