Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Slow and superluminal light based on four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Bala Pesala, Zhangyuan Chen, Alexander V. Uskov, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain

Published Jan 1, 2006• 1 citation

Abstract

Both optically and electrically controllable slow and superluminal light are demonstrated via four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers. Tunable delays up to 1.2 ns are achieved for 0.5 GHz, corresponding to a RF phase change of 1.2 p.

DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2006.4627895

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