Modern Physics Letters B
VARIABLE GROUP VELOCITY SLOWDOWN IN SLOW-LIGHT MEDIA
WEI QIU, Yundong Zhang, Jianbo Ye, He Tian, Jianfang Wang, Nan Wang, Hao Wang, Ping Yuan
Abstract
We investigated the variations of group velocity slowdown in erbium-doped optical fiber. According to the population oscillation effect, the numerical model of the group velocity slowdown was established. From the theoretical calculation, the group velocity slowdown is tunable due to the variety of steady ground state erbium ion population [Formula: see text]. To validate the effect of ion population for slow light, the experimental research was implemented via highly-doped erbium fiber.