A single slow-light element for independent delay control and synchronization on multiple Gb/s data channels

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1081-1083

  Zhang, Bong ^a   Yan, L S ^b   Yang, Jeng Yuan ^a   Fazal, Irfan ^a   Willner, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b General Photonics Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Multichannel synchronization; Nonlinear fiber optics; Slow light; Stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

Indexed keywords

MULTICHANNEL SYNCHRONIZATION; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS;

BANDWIDTH; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FIBER OPTICS; LASER OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS;

STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING;

EID: 34250792376     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2007.899853     Document Type: Article

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