Superluminal space-to-time mapping in gratingassisted co-directional couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6249-6256

  Ashrafi, Reza ^a   Li, Ming ^a   LaRochelle, Sophie ^b   Azana, José ^a  

^a INRS EMT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; IMPULSE RESPONSE; MAPPING;

COUPLING DEVICES; FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES; LONG PERIOD GRATINGS; OPTICAL WAVEFORM; PROCESSING DEVICE; PROPAGATION SPEED; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TIME-RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION;

EID: 84875163516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006249     Document Type: Article

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