Broadband SBS Slow Light using Simple Spectrally-Sliced Pumping

Conference: ECOC 2007 - 33rd European Conference and Exhibition of Optical Communication
09/16/2007 - 09/20/2007 at Berlin, Germany

Proceedings: ECOC 2007

Pages: 2Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Zhang, B.; Zhang, L.; Willner, A. E. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA)
Yan, L.-S. (General Photonics Corp., Chino, CA 91710, USA)
Zhu, Z.; Gauthier, D. J. (Dept. of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA)

Abstract:
We demonstrate broadband SBS slow-light using spectrally-sliced pumping. Both 2.5-Gb/s NRZ-OOK and NRZ-DPSK signals are delayed by maximum 170-ps with 4-dB power-penalty. Periodic spectrally-sliced multi-channel pumping scheme is proposed within a single slow-light medium.