Experimental demonstration of all-optical tunable delay line based on distortion-less slow and fast light using soliton collision in optical fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 24, 2006, Pages 11736-11747

  Kunihiro, Takashi ^a   Maeda, Atsushi ^a   Oda, Shoichiro ^a   Maruta, Akihiro ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT EMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHASE SHIFT; SOLITONS;

DELAY-TO-PULSE-WIDTH RATIO; SOLITON COLLISION; TUNABLE DELAY LINES;

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES;

EID: 34547180497     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.011736     Document Type: Article

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