• DocumentCode
    3699814
  • Title

    Slow light in optical fibers: State-of-the-art and perspectives 10 years after the first demonstration

  • Author

    Luc Th?venaz

  • Author_Institution
    Group for Fibre Optics - Institute of Electrical Engineering - SCI-STI-LT Station 11, EPFL Ecole Polytechnique F?d?rale de Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    The possibility to directly realize all-optical delay lines in optical fibers has triggered efforts of research during the past decade, with few practical outcomes. The reason is fundamental, caused by the unescapable relation between delay and distortion.
  • Keywords
    "Slow light","Delays","Optical fibers","Optical distortion","Nonlinear distortion","Phase distortion"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2166-8892
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OECC.2015.7340251
  • Filename
    7340251