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Frontiers in Optics

Distortion, Noise and Delay study for Wavelength-Conversion and Dispersion Based Slow-Light System

Ravi Pant, Michael D. Stenner, Mark Allen Neifeld

Published Jan 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

For wavelength-conversion dispersion based slow-light system, large gain required for amplifying the incoming pulses increases delay at the expense of amplifier noise. We present the distortion, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and delay tradeoff in these systems.
DOI
10.1364/ls.2007.lwe4

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