Self-advanced fast light propagation in an optical fiber based on Brillouin scattering

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 2008, Pages 12181-12189

  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

BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBERS;

AVERAGE POWER; FAST LIGHT PROPAGATION; GROUP VELOCITIES; LIGHT SIGNAL; OPTICALLY CONTROLLED; SIGNAL BANDWIDTH; SIGNAL FREQUENCIES; STOKES EMISSIONS;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 49149096850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.012181     Document Type: Article

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