Slow light in saturable absorbers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  MacKe, Bruno ^a   Ségard, Bernard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CRYSTALS; EXPERIMENTS; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTING INDIUM; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; DOPED CRYSTALS; FIGURE-OF-MERIT (FOM); FRACTIONAL DELAY (FD); MODULATED LIGHT; OPTICAL (PET) (OPET); SATURABLE ABSORBERS; SATURABLE ABSORBERS (SA); SEMICONDUCTOR HETEROSTRUCTURES; SLOW LIGHT; TIME DELAYING;

FIBERS;

EID: 47249084652     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.013817     Document Type: Article

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