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

Superluminal propagation in a highly nonlinear fiber embedded in a Brillouin laser ring cavity

Dinghuan Deng, Weiqing Gao, Meisong Liao, Zhongchao Duan, Tonglei Cheng, Takenobu Suzuki, Yasutake Ohishi

Published Mar 7, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

Superluminal propagation at negative group velocity was demonstrated in a highly nonlinear fiber embedded in a Brillouin laser ring cavity. A maximum advancement of 369 ns and strong Stokes lasing power of 482 mW were achieved when the cavity was pumped with a 1 MHz sinusoidal wave modulated signal at power level of 1 W. The frequency dependence of fast light in this fiber ring cavity was examined with modulation frequencies of 1 kHz to 15 MHz. a maximum fractional advancement of 0.54 was achieved at 10 kHz and a maximum negative group index of - 9480 was demonstrated at 1 kHz.

DOI
10.1117/12.2037102

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Superluminal propagation at negative group velocity was demonstrated in a highly nonlinear fiber embedded in a Brillouin laser ring cavity. A maximum advancement of 369 ns and strong Stokes lasing power of 482 mW were achieved when the cavity was pumped with a 1 MHz sinusoidal wave modulated signal at power level of 1 W. The frequency dependence of fast light in this fiber ring cavity was examined with modulation frequencies of 1 kHz to 15 MHz. a maximum fractional advancement of 0.54 was achieved at 10 kHz and a maximum negative group index of - 9480 was demonstrated at 1 kHz.
Superluminal propagation at negative group velocity was demonstrated in a highly nonlinear fiber embedded in a stimulated Brillouin scattering laser ring cavity. A maximum advancement of 369 ns and strong Stokes lasing power of 482 mW were observed when the cavity was pumped with a 1 MHz sinusoidal wave modulated signal at the power level of 1 W. The frequency dependence of fast light in this fiber ring cavity was examined with modulation frequencies of 1 kHz to 15 MHz, a maximum fractional advancement of 0.54 was achieved at 10 kHz, and a maximum negative group index of −9480 was demonstrated at 1 kHz.
Highly efficient fast light propagation of optical pulse at negative group velocity was demonstrated in a single-mode tellurite fiber embedded in a Brillouin laser ring cavity. A maximum advancement of 385 ns and an average time advancement per unit power of 3.77 ns/mW were observed when the cavity was pumped with a 1-MHz sinusoidal wave signal at a power level of 102 mW. Pump loss of 7.9 dB was also monitored at the maximum fast light generation, showing an average slope efficiency of 48.7 ns/dB.
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We report the superluminal phenomenon of both Stokes and pump light in stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) via an optical-fiber ring lasing resonator. In our experiment, the superluminal generation of Stokes light firstly delayed with 33.79 ns and then propagated with the advancement of 93.34 ns within an 8-m single mode fiber (SMF), when the pump power increased from the SBS threshold to a higher power. This proves the first evidence that the optical interaction is determined by the group velocity even at the negative group velocity superluminal propagation. It is important that, this implies the possibility of superluminal information interchange because the results also indicate that the signal conversion between different wavelengths can be realized at the negative group velocity propagation.