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Optics Express

  • Editor: C. Martijn de Sterke
  • Vol. 16, Iss. 4 — Feb. 18, 2008
  • pp: 2764–2777

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Optimal pump profile designs for broadband SBS slow-light systems

Ravi Pant, Michael D. Stenner, Mark A. Neifeld, and Daniel J. Gauthier  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 4, pp. 2764-2777 (2008)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.16.002764


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Abstract

We describe a methodology for designing the optimal gain profiles for gain-based, tunable, broadband, slow-light pulse delay devices based on stimulated Brillouin scattering. Optimal gain profiles are obtained under system constraints such as distortion, total pump power, and maximum gain. The delay performance of three candidate systems: Gaussian noise pump broadened (GNPB), optimal gain-only, and optimal gain+absorption are studied using Gaussian and super-Gaussian pulses. For the same pulse bandwidth, we find that the optimal gain+absorption medium improves the delay performance by 2.1 times the GNPB medium delay and 1.3 times the optimal gain-only medium delay for Gaussian pulses. For the super-Gaussian pulses the optimal gain-only medium provides a fractional pulse delay 1.8 times the GNPB medium delay.

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OCIS Codes
(060.2310) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber optics
(060.4370) Fiber optics and optical communications : Nonlinear optics, fibers
(290.5900) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Brillouin

ToC Category:
Slow Light

History
Original Manuscript: November 26, 2007
Revised Manuscript: February 7, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: February 10, 2008
Published: February 13, 2008

Citation
Ravi Pant, Michael D. Stenner, Mark A. Neifeld, and Daniel J. Gauthier, "Optimal pump profile designs for broadband SBS slow-light systems," Opt. Express 16, 2764-2777 (2008)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-16-4-2764


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