• DocumentCode
    3398902
  • Title

    THz-Bandwidth Fast Light in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers for Two Pulses in Rapid Succession

  • Author

    Sedgwick, F.G. ; Pesala, B. ; Uskov, A.V. ; Chang-Hasnain, C.J.

  • Author_Institution
    California Univ., Berkeley
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    July 29 2007-Aug. 11 2007
  • Firstpage
    178
  • Lastpage
    179
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate fast light advance of 2.7 pulse widths for sub-picosecond pulses in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. Two such pulses, separated by 7 ps, can also be advanced more than 1.8 pulse widths each.
  • Keywords
    high-speed optical techniques; optical communication equipment; packet switching; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication network routing; all-optical network; packet switched network; router; semiconductor optical amplifiers; subpicosecond pulses; terahertz-bandwidth fast light; time 7 ps; Bandwidth; Delay; Fast light; Fiber lasers; Light scattering; Optical pulses; Optical scattering; Pulse amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Space vector pulse width modulation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nano-Optoelectronics Workshop, 2007. i-NOW '07. International
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1591-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/INOW.2007.4302940
  • Filename
    4302940