Highly efficient Brillouin slow and fast light using As2Se3 chalcogenide fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 5860-5865

  Song, Kwang Yong ^a   Abedin, Kazi S ^b   Hotate, Kazuo ^a   Herráez, Miguel González ^c   Thévenaz, Luc ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 85010143388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.005860     Document Type: Article

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