Slow and fast light: Controlling the speed of light using semiconductor waveguides

Laser and Photonics Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 30-44

  Mørk, Jesper ^a   Öhman, Filip ^a   van der Poel, Mike ^a   Chen, Yaohui ^a   Lunnemann, Per ^a   Yvind, Kresten ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coherent population oscillations; EAs (electroabsorbers); Nonlinear optics; Pulse propagation; Semiconductor waveguides; SOAs (semiconductor optical amplifiers)

Indexed keywords

EID: 64349086024     PISSN: 18638880     EISSN: 18638899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lpor.200810020     Document Type: Article

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