Slow light in optical fiber using stimulated brillouin scattering

Valeri I. Kovalev; Robert G. Harrison; Jonathan C. Knight; Nadezhda E. Kotova

doi:10.1117/12.801761

Slow light in optical fiber using stimulated brillouin scattering

Valeri I. Kovalev, Robert G. Harrison, Jonathan C. Knight, Nadezhda E. Kotova

School of Engineering & Physical Sciences

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The minimum duration of pulses, that can be delayed through so called "slow light" in stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is limited by the relatively narrow bandwidth of SBS (~15-30 MHz). This limits useful data rates to less than a few Mb/s while for telecommunication applications multi-Gb/s is required. We propose implementation of waveguide induced spectral broadening of SBS in optical fiber to allow massive increase of its bandwidth (reduction of operational pulse duration) to thereby achieve high data rate. Our analysis shows that for fiber of numerical aperture ~0.8 the SBS bandwidth is enhanced to ~15 GHz.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Workshop on Quantum Optics 2007
Volume	7024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.801761
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	International Workshop on Quantum Optics, IWQO 2007 - Samara, Russian Federation Duration: 18 Sept 2007 → 22 Sept 2007

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Conference	International Workshop on Quantum Optics, IWQO 2007
Country/Territory	Russian Federation
City	Samara
Period	18/09/07 → 22/09/07

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Optical fibers
Slow light
Stimulated Brillouin scattering

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