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Slow and Fast Light (SL)

Distortion-Reduced Pulse-Train Propagation with Large Delay in a Triple Gain Media

Zhimin Shi, Robert W. Boyd, Zhaoming Zhu, Daniel J. Gauthier, Ravi Pant, Michael D. Stenner, Mark Allen Neifeld

Published Jan 1, 2006• 3 citations
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Abstract

A slow light medium based on three closely spaced gain lines is studied. Both numerical calculations and experiments demonstrate that large delay can be achieved with large bandwidth and with very small distortion.
DOI
10.1364/sl.2006.wb3

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