Title :
Improving the bandwidth of SBS-based slow-light delay
Author :
Dawes, Andrew M C ; Zhu, Zhaoming ; Gauthier, Daniel J.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Duke Univ., Durham, NC
Abstract :
Frequency modulating the pump laser in SBS slow-light delay systems increases the effective Brillouin bandwidth by nearly two orders of magnitude, making the fiber Brillouin amplifier technique applicable to all-optical controllable delay of Gb/s data.
Keywords :
frequency modulation; optical fibre amplifiers; optical modulation; optical pumping; slow light; stimulated Brillouin scattering; SBS-based slow-light delay systems; all-optical controllable delay; effective Brillouin bandwidth; fiber Brillouin amplifier technique; frequency modulation; pump laser; Bandwidth; Brillouin scattering; Control systems; Delay effects; Delay systems; Fiber lasers; Frequency modulation; Laser excitation; Optical control; Pump lasers; (060.4370) Nonlinear optics, fibers; (290.5900) Scattering, stimulated Brillouin;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628099
