Flexible Slow and Fast Light in Optical Fibers

Thevenaz, LucChin, Sang-HoonSong, Kwang-YongGonzalez-Herraez, Miguel2008-09-292008-09-292008-09-29200610.1109/LEOS.2006.278797https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/29982A method to achieve an extremely wide and flexible control of the group velocity in an optical fiber using stimulated Brillouin scattering is presented. Group velocities below 71,000 km/s on one hand, well exceeding the speed of light in vacuum on the other hand and even negative group velocities can readily be obtainedFlexible Slow and Fast Light in Optical Fiberstext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper