Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Pulse delay and speed-up of ultra fast pulses in an absorbing quantum well medium

Per Lunnemann, Mike van der Poel, Kresten Yvind, Jesper Mørk

Published May 1, 2008• 1 citation

Abstract

Slow down and speed-up of 180 fs pulses in an absorbing semiconductor beyond the existing models is observed. Cascading gain and absorbing sections give us significant temporal pulse shifting at almost constant output pulse energy.

DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2008.4551863

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