Structural slow light can enhance Beer-Lambert absorption

• Presented at: Slow and Fast Light (SL), Toronto, Canada, June 12, 2011
• Published in: OSA Technical Digest (CD), p. SLWC2
• Washington DC: Optical Society of America, 2011

We experimentally demonstrate that structural slow light can enhance Beer-Lambert absorption. A 4-fold reduction of the group velocity induced by mere cavity effects has caused an increase of molecular absorption by 130%.

Keywords: Fiber optics sensors ; Photonic crystal fibers ; Resonators

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Postdeadline paper

Reference

• EPFL-CONF-168484
• URL: http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=SL-2011-SLWC2

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