• DocumentCode
    2865643
  • Title

    Slow and superluminal light based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

  • Author

    Pesala, Bala ; Chen, Zhangyuan ; Uskov, Alexander V. ; Chang-Hasnain, Connie

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-26 May 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Both optically and electrically controllable slow and superluminal light are demonstrated via four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers. Tunable delays up to 1.2 ns are achieved for 0.5 GHz, corresponding to a RF phase change of 1.2 p.
  • Keywords
    delays; multiwave mixing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; four-wave mixing; semiconductor optical amplifiers; slow light; superluminal light; tunable delays; Delay; Fiber nonlinear optics; Four-wave mixing; Laser excitation; Nonlinear optics; Optical mixing; Optical pumping; Optical saturation; Probes; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; (230.1150) All-optical devices; (230.4320) Nonlinear optical devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-813-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627895
  • Filename
    4627895