DocumentCode
528328
Title
Simple source for broadband Brillouin slow light in optical fibers
Author
Chin, Sanghoon ; Thévenaz, Luc
Author_Institution
Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
fYear
2010
fDate
5-9 July 2010
Firstpage
482
Lastpage
483
Abstract
Spontaneously broadened emission from a distributed feedback laser diode operated just above threshold is used as a pump source in Brillouin slow light systems. The pump spectrum could this way be extended to several GHz.
Keywords
optical fibre networks; semiconductor lasers; telecommunication network routing; all-optical buffers; all-optical routers; broadband Brillouin slow light; distributed feedback laser diode; optical fibers; Bandwidth; Broadband communication; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Scattering; Slow light;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2010 15th
Conference_Location
Sapporo
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-6785-3
Type
conf
Filename
5588520
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