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Optics Letters

Simultaneous fast and slow light in microring resonators

Chris R. Fietz, Gennady B. Shvets

Published Dec 3, 2007• 20 citations
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Abstract

Two orthogonal light polarizations in a waveguide overcoupled to microring resonators can propagate as fast and slow light. Which polarization is fast (slow) is determined by input polarization and the number of resonators.
DOI
10.1364/ol.32.003480

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