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Dispersion-Controlled Slow Light in Photonic Crystal Waveguides

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JMA1
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• Baba, Toshihiko; Sasaki, Hirokazu; Adachi, Jun; Ishikura, Norihiro; Hamachi, Yohei; Yamada, Koshiro; Saito, Yuji
• Photonic crystal slow light waveguides are demonstrated with a large delay-bandwidth product over 100, picosecond pulse transmission and tunable delay. The nonlinear enhancement based...

Processing Light in Coupled Ring Resonators

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JMA2
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• Morichetti, Francesco; Ferrari, Carlo; Canciamilla, Antonio; Torregiani, Matteo; Melloni, Andrea; Samarelli, Antonio; De La Rue, Richard; Sorel, Marc
• The state-of-the-art of coupled resonator optical waveguides made of chains of ring resonators in glass and SOI platforms is reviewed. Issues concerning technology, design, limits and...

All Optical Switching in Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Nano-Cavities

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JMA3
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• Belotti, Michele; Galli, Matteo; Gerace, Dario; Andreani, Lucio C; Guizzetti, Giorgio; Md Zain, Ahmad R; Johnson, Nigel P; Sorel, Marc; De La Rue, Richard M
• All optical switching in a silicon-on-insulator wire with a 1D photonic crystal nanocavity with ultra-high quality factor operating at telecom wavelengths is presented. Switching is...

Recent Advances in "Trapped Rainbow" Techniques for Stopping Light

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JMA4
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• Tsakmakidis, Kosmas; Hess, Ortwin
• We provide an overview of "trapped rainbow" techniques for stopping light. We show that guided modes with real propagation constant and complex frequency can be "trapped...

Ultracompact Switches and Modulators Based on Slow Light in Photonic Crystals

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JMA5
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• Krauss, Thomas F; Beggs, Daryl M; White, Thomas P; O'Faolain, Liam; Kampfrath, Tobias; Kuipers, L (Kobus)
• Photonic crystal slow light waveguides enable modulators with high speed and large bandwidth. Group indices of 30-40 are achieved with low loss and we demonstrate modulators of <100...

Modulation and Measurement of Time-Energy Entangled Photons

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JTuB25
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• Belthangady, Chinmay N; Du, Shengwang; Chuu, Chih-Sung; Yin, Guang-Yu; Harris, Stephen E
• We describe a proof-of-principle experiment demonstrating a Fourier technique for measuring the shape of biphoton wavepackets that vary rapidly as compared to the speed of available...

Middle Band Zero Group Velocities in a SCARECROW Waveguide Structure

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JTuB26
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• Weiss, Ori; Scheuer, Jacob
• SCARECROW structure is presented. Degeneracy Removal of SCISSOR by ring to ring coupling shows band split and middle Brillouin zone zero group velocities. Pulse propagation, finite and...

Compact Optically-Fed Microwave True-Time Delay Using Liquid Crystal Photonic Bandgap Fiber Device

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JTuB27
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• Wei, Lei; Xue, Weiqi; Chen, Yaohui; Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard; Anders, Bjarklev
• Electrically tunable liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber device based optically-fed microwave true-time delay is demonstrated. A maximum ~60° phase shift and an averaged ~7.2ps true...

Tunable Optical Delay Line Using Semiconductor Laser for 10 Gbit/s Data Signal

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JTuB28
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• Wu, Fang-Ming; Peng, Peng-Chun; Lan, Ruei-Long; Chen, Jye-Hong; Lin, Chun-Ting; Chi, Sien
• This work experimentally demonstrates a tunable optical delay line using a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). Tunable delays for 10 Gbit/s data signal are achieved by...

Phase-Controlled Slow and Fast Light in Current-Modulated Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWA26
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• Melle, Sonia; Antón, Miguel A; Carreño, Fernando; Arrieta-Yañez, Francisco; Calderon, Oscar G
• We present a theoretical study of the slow and fast light propagation in semiconductor optical amplifiers based on coherent population oscillations. By modulating the injection current...

Observation of Slow Light and Superluminal in Cs Atomic Vapor

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWA27
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• Zhang, Yundong; Liu, Shuangqiang; Wu, Hao; He, Zhusong; Yuan, Ping
• Slow light and superluminal were both observed in Cs atomic vapor without any couple field. By only changing the signal modulate frequency, the light propagation changes from...

Pulse Width Depending Group Velocity on Erbium-Doped Fibers

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWA29
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• Arrieta-Yañez, Francisco; Calderon, Oscar G; Melle, Sonia; Carreño, Fernando; Anton, Miguel Angle
• We report a change in the propagation regime (subluminal-superluminal) of light pulses in a pumped erbium doped fiber. We explain this behavior as a propagation effect. A pulse-width...

Slow Light Enhanced Nonlinear Effects in Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguides

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWB1
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• Monat, Christelle; Corcoran, B; Grillet, C; Ebnali-Heidari, M; Moss, D J; Eggleton, B J; White, T P; O'Faolain, L; Krauss, T F
• We experimentally investigate the slow light enhancement of nonlinear effects such as self-phase modulation, two-photon absorption and free carriers, through dispersion-engineered...

Complete Broadening Compensation in a Slow Light System Using a Non-Linear Regeneration Element

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWB2
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• Chin, Sanghoon; Gonzalez-Herraez, Miguel; Thévenaz, Luc
• We demonstrate experimentally a new configuration to realize zero-broadening slow light. The inevitable pulse broadening in the slow light medium was completely compensated by a...

Four-Wave Mixing in Slow Light Waveguides

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWB3
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• Govindan, Vishnupriya; Blair, Steve
• We study the effects of pulse distortion on four-wave mixing (FWM) for different slow-light architectures. REMZI has the highest FWM conversion. Distortion constraint limits the FWM...

Modulation of Single Photons and Biphotons

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWB4
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• Harris, Steve
• We generate photons with sub-natural linewidths and temporal lengths that are sufficiently long that they may be easily modulated. Results include a new technique for measuring the...

Broadband Optical Delay and Filtering in Spectrally Structured Materials

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: JWB5
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• Babbitt, Wm Randall; Barber, Zeb W
• Spectrally structured optical materials have the ability to process broadband signals, including performing true-time-delay and spectral filtering. This paper reviews the theory and...

Slow Light in a Parametrically Amplifying Medium

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: PDJWA30
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• Hayashi, Nobuhito; Fujisawa, Akihiko; Mitsunaga, Masaharu
• We theoretically study propagation behavior of probe (signal) and Stokes (idler) pulses under a strong coupling beam. The analyses predict that both pulses are parametrically amplified...

Polarization Dependent Pulse Distortion in Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Slow Light Systems

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: PDPC1
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• Zadok, Avi; Chin, Sanghoon; Zilka, Elad; Eyal, Avishay; Thévenaz, Luc; Tur, Moshe
• Stimulated Brillouin scattering slow light delay is shown to introduce an inherent polarization mode dispersion, which can dominate the broadening and distortion of signal pulses. The...

High-Q Photonic Crystal Chalcogenide Cavities by Photosensitive Post Processing

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• Slow and Fast Light (SL) 2009 paper: PDPC2
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• Lee, Michael W; Grillet, Christian; Tomljenovic-Hanic, Snjezana; Moss, Dave; Eggleton, Benjamin J; Gai, Xin; Madden, Steve; Choi, Duck Y; Bulla, Douglas; Luther-Davies, Barry
• We present the first demonstration of a high-Q (~60000) photonic crystal (PhC) cavity formed post-fabrication by locally modifying the refractive index of a PhC made of a...