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International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

Experimental Demonstration of Distortionless Slow and Fast Light Generation by Use of Soliton Collision in Optical Fiber

Akihiro Maruta, Takashi Kunihiro, Atsushi Maeda

Published Jun 1, 2006• 1 citation
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Abstract

Optical solitons at different frequencies can pass through each other without variations of their waveforms, frequencies, and energies except their temporal positions and phases. This peculiar feature of optical soliton can be used to generate distortionless slow or fast light in optical fiber
DOI
10.1109/icton.2006.248235

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