Title :
Slow light in nonlinear fibre Bragg gratings
Author :
Mok, Joe T. ; Tsoy, Eduard ; De Sterke, C. Martijn ; Littler, Ian C M ; Eggleton, Benjamin J.
Author_Institution :
ARC Centre for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Opt. Syst. (CUDOS), Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We demonstrate slow light by exciting gap solitons in a 10 cm apodized fibre Bragg grating. Propagation at 0.23 c/n with little pulse distortion, corresponding to a delay of over 1.6 ns, is observed.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; optical fibres; optical solitons; apodized fibre Bragg grating; exciting gap solitons; size 10 cm; slow light in nonlinear fibre Bragg gratings; Bragg gratings; Fiber gratings; Slow light; 190.4370 (Nonlinear optics, fibers); 190.5530 (Pulse propagation and solitons);
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.2006.4628880
