Experimental demonstration of slow and superluminal light in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 26, 2006, Pages 12968-12975

  Pesala, Bala ^a   Chen, Zhangyuan ^a   Uskov, Alexander V ^a   Chang Hasnain, Connie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT MODULATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

OPTICAL PULSES; PUMP POWER; SINUSOIDAL MODULATED SIGNALS; SUPERLUMINAL LIGHT;

LIGHT AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33845748587     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.012968     Document Type: Article

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