Fast light and the speed of information transfer in the presence of detector noise

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-224

  Feng, Michael Z ^a   Sorin, Wayne V ^a   Tucker, Rodney S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fast light; information transfer; pulse advancement; Q factor

Indexed keywords

FAST LIGHT; INFORMATION TRANSFERS; PROPAGATION SPEED; PULSE ADVANCEMENT; PULSE PROPAGATION; Q-FACTORS; SIGNALTONOISE RATIO (SNR); TELECOMMUNICATION ANALYSIS;

Q FACTOR MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

SPEED;

EID: 76149113162     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2009.2031684     Document Type: Article

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