Large tunable fractional delay of slow light pulse and its application to fast optical correlator

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 24102-24108

  Ishikura, Norihiro ^a,b   Baba, Toshihiko ^a,b   Kuramochi, Eichi ^b,c   Notomi, Masaya ^b,c  

^a YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATORS; LIGHT; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; SCANNING;

COUPLED WAVEGUIDES; FRACTIONAL DELAY; LOCAL HEATING; MECHANICAL SCANNER; OPTICAL CORRELATORS; OUTPUT PULSE; SLOW-LIGHT DEVICES; SLOW-LIGHT PULSE;

SLOW LIGHT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; REFRACTOMETRY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 82055206481     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.024102     Document Type: Article

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