Thévenaz, LucGonzalez-Herraez, M.2008-09-292008-09-292008-09-292006https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/29911Slowing down light to produce optical delay lines for communication networks has advanced enormously in the last year. Luc Thévenaz and Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez chart this recent progress and describe the new challenges facing developers of practical devicesoptical delay linesoptical fibre networksoptical fibresstimulated Brillouin scatteringSlowing light in optical fibres sees fast progresstext::journal::journal article::review article