Zero-gain slow & fast light propagation in an optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 10684-10692

  Chin, Sanghoon ^a   Gonzalez Herraez, Miguel ^b   Thévenaz, Luc ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE ATTENUATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TRANSPARENCY;

AMPLITUDE; OPTICAL DELAYS; SPECTRAL WIDTH;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

EID: 33750697917     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.010684     Document Type: Article

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