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Tunable Pulse Delay Demonstration using Four-Wave Mixing in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Zhangyuan Chen, Bala Pesala, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain

Published Jan 1, 2006• 6 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate fractional delay exceeding 40 percent for a 1.3ns pulse using non-degenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers. Continuously tunable fast and slow light with a total difference of 0.59 ns was obtained.

DOI: 10.1364/sl.2006.mc2

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