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Optical Fiber Communication Conference

Narrow Band Optical Parametric Amplification for Slow Light in Randomly Birefringent Fibers

Luca Schenato, Marco Santagiustina, Carlo Giacomo Someda

Published Feb 1, 2008• 2 citations
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Abstract

The effects of random birefringence in narrowband parametric amplification for slow light has been numerically investigated showing that the reduction of the mean gain directly causes the reduction of the mean delay for small birefringence.
DOI
10.1109/ofc.2008.4528058

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