Stimulate Brillouin scattering based broadband tunable slow-light conversion in a highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1279-1285

  Liu, Jianguo ^a   Cheng, Tee Hiang ^a   Yeo, Yong Kee ^b   Wang, Yixin ^b   Xue, Lifang ^c   Rong, Weifeng ^b   Zhou, Luying ^b   Xiao, Gaoxi ^a   Wang, Dawei ^a   Yu, Xiaojun ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing; Nonlinear fiber optics; Slow light; Stimulated Brillouin scattering; Wavelength conversion

Indexed keywords

10-GBIT/S; ALL-OPTICAL; DELAY TIME; HIGHLY NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; NONLINEAR FIBER OPTICS; PSEUDO RANDOM BIT SEQUENCES; SLOW LIGHT; STIMULATE BRILLOUIN SCATTERINGS; WAVELENGTH CONVERSION; WIDE BANDWIDTH;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LASER PULSES; LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SCATTERING; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; ULTRASONICS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 67349263009     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.2007575     Document Type: Article

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