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
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;
Conference_Titel :
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2010 15th
Conference_Location :
Sapporo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6785-3
