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Slow Light in Quantum Dot Semiconductor Laser for Photonic RF Phase Shifter

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA1
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• Peng, P C; Liu, J N; Lin, C T; Kuo, H C; Chen, J H; Wang, S C; Chi, S; Chi, J Y
• We demonstrate a phase shifter based on slow light in a quantum dot vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser. The phase change with the frequency ranging from 10 to 20 GHz is achieved.

Slow-Light Soliton Stability with Respect to Atomic Relaxation

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA10
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• Vadeiko, Ilya; Rybin, Andrei; Bishop, Alan
• We solved the problem of slow-light soliton dynamics in the presence of strong spontaneous emission of excited atoms. We have demonstrated that the damping of the soliton is strongly...

Study of Brillouin Active Fiber Ring as an Effective Slow Light Device

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA11
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• Yu, Chung; Horne, Christopher; Kim, Yongkab
• This letter presents experimental data on the superior performance in SBS gain and linewidth of the fiber ring and their potential enhancement of time delay in slow light fiber...

Reduction of Light Propagation by Spectral Burning Hole in an Optical Fiber

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA12
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• Zhang, Yundong; Qiu, Wei; Ye, Jianbo; Tian, He; Wang, Nan; Wang, Hao; Yuan, Ping
• The authors observed a spectral burning hole and slowdown of light propagation by population oscillation technique in an Erbium-doped optical fiber. Measured bandwidth of the hole...

Flat and Offset Band Edges in Multi-Mode Fibers with Superstructure Bragg Gratings

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA13
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• Sukhorukov, Andrey A; de Sterke, C Martijn
• We show that, in a conventional fiber with a superstructure Bragg grating designed for mode mixing, the dispersion at band-gap edge can be made quartic, or the band-edges may appear...

Observation of Band Structure and Reduced Group Velocity Area in SOI 2D Planar Photonic Crystals

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA2
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• Paraire, Nicole A; Benachour, Yassine; Nevou, Laurent
• We report experimental band structure determination for several 2D photonic crystals etched in SOI, using diffractive optics techniques. This allows fast characterization of devices...

Limitations on Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Coupled-Resonator Waveguides

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA3
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• Govindan, Vishnupriya; Blair, Steve
• Under the constraint of fixed pulse distortion, the nonlinear response of coupled-resonator slow light waveguides fails to improve with increasing number of resonators, even though...

Influence of Group Velocity on Roughness Losses for 1D Periodic Structures

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA4
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• García, Jaime; Martínez, Alejandro; Martí, Javier
• Slow-wave structures do not only provide benefits. One of their most important problems is the increase of roughness losses when group velocity decreases. This dependence has been...

Slow Light Propagation for High Optical Information Density in Active Photonic Lattices

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA5
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• Riyopoulos, Spilios
• Evanescent field coupling in coupled micro- and nano-laser cavity arrays supports optical modulation waves propagating near the sound speed. The possibility of achieving high...

Broad-Bandwidth Slow Light in Multi-Line Brillouin Gain Spectrum

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA6
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• Dong, Yongkang; Lu, Zhiwei; Li, Qiang
• We present a method to achieve broad-bandwidth and flat-top gain spectrum through overlapping multi-line Brillouin gain spectrum with a phase modulator, achieving a Brillouin gain...

Physical Properties of InN for Optically Controlling the Speed of Light

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA7
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• Naranjo, Fernando B; González-Herráez, Miguel; Fernández, Héctor; Solis, Javier; Monroy, Eva
• We report on |χ⁽³⁾| and population grating lifetime measurements performed on thick InN samples. We study the possibility of using InN for slow light applications...

Low Distortion Fast Light in an Optical Fiber Using Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA8
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• Thévenaz, Luc; Chin, Sanghoon; Gonzalez-Herraez, Miguel
• We demonstrate expeimentally a novel approach for fast light generation based on a wideband compound spectral resonance using stimulated Brillouin scattering. The pulses experience...

Slow Light of Gb/s Bit Streams via Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Non-Uniform Optical Fibers

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: JTuA9
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• Kalosha, Vladimir; Chen, Liang; Bao, Xiaoyi
• Slow-light effect in fibers with distance-depending Brillouin frequency provides large, optically controlled delay of picosecond pulses with a little shape distortion, when Brillouin...

Semiconductor Tunable Lasers Based on Integrated Waveguide Filters for Wavelength Routing Applications

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMA1
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• Kakitsuka, Takaaki; Matsuo, Shinji; Segawa, Toru; Suzuki, Hiroyuki
• We present two types of tunable lasers with integrated waveguide filters; one using a ladder-type filter, the other using double-ring resonators. Their characteristics and...

Highly Efficient GaAs/AlGaAs Substrate Removed Nanowire Phase Modulators Based on Current Injection

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMA2
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• Shin, JaeHyuk; Chang, Yu-Chia; Dagli, Nadir
• Highly efficient GaAs/AlGaAs nanowire phase modulators with drive voltage less than 0.1 V and phase shift efficiency π/mA have been realized. The modulator requires only 6.25 μW AC...

Multi-bounce Dual Grating Reflector for Internal Wavelength Locking of Laser Diodes

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMA3
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• O'Daniel, Jason; Smolski, Oleg; Johnson, Eric
• This paper introduces a multi-bounce scheme based on a Dual Grating Reflector concept for integrated wavelength locking of broad stripe laser diodes.

InP-Based Multi-Function Integrated Optical Devices

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMA4
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• Bernasconi, Pietro; Bhardwaj, A; Doerr, C R; Zhang, L; Sauer, N; Buhl, L; Yang, W; Neilson, D T
• We review a few recent examples of monolithically integrated devices comprising a variety of heterogeneous functional elements such as fast-tunable wavelength converters, amplified...

High-Speed Integrated Modulators and Receivers

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMA5
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• Velthaus, Karl-Otto
• Modulators and receivers are key components for high-speed transmission networks. This paper presents recent results at HHI for InP based MZ-modulators and receiver structures for...

Modeling Photonic Crystals by Dirichlet-to-Neumann Maps

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMB1
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• Lu, Ya Yan; Yuan, Jianhua; Li, Shaojie
• The DtN map can be used to develop efficient numerical methods for analyzing photonic crystals. Boundary integral equation and multipole methods are used to construct DtN maps and...

Band-Structure Analysis of 2D Non-Diagonal Anisotropic Photonic Crystals by the Finite Element Method

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• Integrated Photonics and Nanophotonics Research and Applications (IPNRA) 2007 paper: IMB2
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• Hsu, Sen-ming; Chen, Ming-mung; Chang, Hung-chun
• A finite-element method based eigenvalue algorithm is developed to investigate the intrinsic effect of anisotropy on the construction of complete band structures for two-dimensional...