Asia Optical Fiber Communication and Optoelectronics Conference (AOE)

Slow light in silicon nano-waveguide

Fangfei Liu

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

We propose a widely tunable slow-light delay element based on nano-scale silicon microring resonator assisted by parametric amplification. This scheme provides flexible adjustment of the delay time and bandwidth to adapt to different data rates.

DOI: 10.1109/aoe.2007.4410906

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