Wide-range continuously-tunable slow-light delay line based on stimulated brillouin scattering

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2013, Pages 1920-1923

  Ju, Haijuan ^a   Ren, Liyong ^a   Lin, Xiao ^a   Liang, Jian ^a   Ma, Chengju ^a  

^a XI AN INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND PRECISION MECHANICS   (China)

Author keywords

optical delay line; optical fibers; Slow light; stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS)

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DELAY LINES; PUMP BEAMS; SLOW-LIGHT DELAY; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING (SBS);

OPTICAL FIBERS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; STIMULATED BRILLOUIN SCATTERING; TIME DELAY; WAVES;

SLOW LIGHT;

EID: 84884559274     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2013.2278536     Document Type: Article

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