Title :
Slow Light Propagation in Nonlinear Bragg Gratings
Author :
Eggleton, Benjamin J. ; Mok, Joe T. ; De Sterke, C. Martijn ; Tsoy, Eduard ; Littler, Ian C.
Author_Institution :
ARC Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. egg@physics.usyd.edu.au
Abstract :
Gap solitons, pulses propagating in the bandgap of photonic crystal materials, can have any velocity between 0 and c/n without broadening. Delays over 30 pulse widths are potentially viable in a 10-cm silica fibre Bragg grating.
Keywords :
Bragg gratings; Crystalline materials; Delay; Optical propagation; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystals; Silicon compounds; Slow light; Solitons; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Communications, 2006. ECOC 2006. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cannes, France
Print_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-2-912328-39-7
DOI :
10.1109/ECOC.2006.4801023
