Slow and fast light effects and their applications to microwave photonics using semiconductor optical amplifiers

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 11 PART 2, 2010, Pages 3022-3038

  Sales, Salvador ^a   Xue, Weiqi ^b   Mørk, Jesper ^b   Gasulla, Ivana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Microwave photonics; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow and fast light (SFL) effects

Indexed keywords

ANALOG LINKS; ARBITRARY WAVEFORM GENERATION; BASIC PRINCIPLES; COHERENT POPULATION OSCILLATION; MICROWAVE PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS; MICROWAVE PHOTONICS; OPTO-ELECTRONIC OSCILLATOR; PHASE-SHIFTING; SEMICONDUCTOR WAVEGUIDE; SLOW AND FAST LIGHT; SLOW AND FAST LIGHT (SFL) EFFECTS; TRUE TIME DELAY;

MICROWAVES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONICS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; SLOW LIGHT;

MICROWAVE OSCILLATORS;

EID: 78449295545     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2075510     Document Type: Article

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