Title :
Broad-bandwidth Brillouin slow light in optical fibers
Author :
Herráez, Miguel González ; Song, Kwang-Yong ; Thévenaz, Luc
Author_Institution :
Nanophotonics & Metrol. Lab., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne
Abstract :
We experimentally demonstrate that Brillouin slow light with an arbitrary large bandwidth can be readily obtained in conventional optical fibers using a simple and inexpensive pump spectral broadening technique
Keywords :
optical fibres; optical pumping; spectral line broadening; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Brillouin slow light; broad-bandwidth slow light; optical fibers; pump spectral broadening; stimulated Brillouin scattering; Bandwidth; Brillouin scattering; Delay; Fiber nonlinear optics; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical scattering; Slow light; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. OFC 2006
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-803-9
DOI :
10.1109/OFC.2006.215339
