Physical limits to broadening compensation in a linear slow light system

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4732-4739

  Gonzalez Herraez, Miguel ^a   Thévenaz, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; LOW PASS FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

LOW-PASS FILTERING; PHYSICAL LIMITS; PULSE BROADENING; RESEARCH EFFORTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SPECTRAL WIDTHS; TEMPORAL WIDTH; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 62549135294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004732     Document Type: Article

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