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Advances in Optical Sciences Congress

Slow light in a parametrically amplifying medium

Nobuhito Hayashi, A. Fujisawa, Masaharu Mitsunaga

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We theoretically study propagation behavior of probe (signal) and Stokes (idler) pulses under a strong coupling beam. The analyses predict that both pulses are parametrically amplified and delayed by about a pulsewidth.
DOI
10.1364/sl.2009.pdjwa30

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