Simple technique to achieve fast light in gain regime using Brillouin scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 10814-10821

  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

BANDWIDTH; BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; RESONANCE; SIGNAL DISTORTION;

GAIN SPECTRUM; GROUP INDEX; PUMP SPECTRUM;

OPTICAL GAIN;

EID: 34548071193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.010814     Document Type: Article

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