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International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics

Alternative architectures for RF phase shifters and optical delay lines based on slow and fast light in SOAs

Perrine Berger, Jérôme Bourderionnet, Daniel Dolfi, Mehdi Alouini, Fabien Bretenaker, G. de Valicourt, R. Brenot

Published Oct 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We show that forced coherent population oscillations (CPO) constitute an alternative set-up to conceive a controllable RF phase shifter, and that wave-mixing in SOAs opens the possibility to conceive optical tunable delay lines beyond the carrier lifetime limit.
DOI
10.1109/mwp.2010.5664183

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