• DocumentCode
    3433698
  • Title

    Slow light in nonlinear fibre Bragg gratings

  • Author

    Mok, Joe ; De Sterke, Martijn ; Littler, Ian ; Eggleton, Benjamin

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Phys., Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    10-13 July 2006
  • Firstpage
    146
  • Lastpage
    146
  • Abstract
    We observe slow gap solitons of width 0.68 ns propagating through a fibre Bragg grating, with a group velocity of ~c/6. Nonlinearity maintains the pulses´ temporal width, which would otherwise undergo dispersive broadening.
  • Keywords
    Bragg gratings; energy gap; light propagation; optical constants; optical fibre dispersion; optical solitons; spectral line broadening; dispersive broadening; group velocity; nonlinear fibre Bragg grating; pulse temporal width; slow gap soliton propagation; Bragg gratings; Delay; Fiber gratings; Frequency; Optical distortion; Optical propagation; Optical pulses; Photonic band gap; Slow light; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Fibre Technology/Australian Optical Society, 2006. ACOFT/AOS 2006. Australian Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Melbourne, VIC
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-9775657-1-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-0-9775657-1-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ACOFT.2006.4519278
  • Filename
    4519278