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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Pump controllable optical delay line using CdSe quantum dots

Qiguang Yang, Jaetae Seo, Bagher M. Tabibi, William W. Yu

Published Nov 20, 2009• 2 citations
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Abstract

Pump controllable nanosecond optical delay has been demonstrated using colloid CdSe quantum dots. The delay time can be easily manipulated by a pump beam. The physical mechanism for the two-wave mixing based group velocity manipulation has been investigated.
DOI
10.1117/12.852277

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