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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Controlling the Speed of Light in Semiconductor Waveguides: Physics and Applications

Jesper Mørk, Weiqi Xue, Yaohui Chen, Søren Blaaberg, Salvador Sales, J. Capmany

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We review the physics of slow and fast light effects in semiconductor optical waveguides. Recent experimental and theoretical results on enhancing the phase shift using optical filtering are presented and applications in microwave photonics are discussed.
DOI
10.1364/cleo.2009.jtuf4

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