Advanced Photonics

Frequency unlimited optical delay lines based on slow and fast light in SOAs

Perrine Berger, Jérôme Bourderionnet, Minhao Pu, Kresten Yvind, Fabien Bretenaker, Daniel Dolfi, Mehdi Alouini

Published Jan 1, 2011• 0 citations

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that up-converted coherent population oscillations (CPO) in SOA open the possibility to conceive integrated optical tunable delay lines beyond the carrier lifetime limit, up to THz frequencies.

DOI: 10.1364/sl.2011.sltua2

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