Complete compensation of pulse broadening in an amplifier-based slow light system using a nonlinear regeneration element

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 21910-21917

  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

CHEMICAL ELEMENTS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; TIME DELAY;

COMPLETE COMPENSATION; DELAYED PULSE; LIGHT ELEMENTS; MAXIMUM DELAY; NON-LINEAR RESPONSE; NONLINEAR OPTICAL LOOP MIRROR; PULSE BROADENING; TEMPORAL BROADENING;

SLOW LIGHT;

GLASS FIBER;

ALGORITHM; AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHYSICS; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ALGORITHMS; AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHYSICS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 72449123672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021910     Document Type: Article

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