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Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC)

Slow-light optical buffers based on a ring resonator and an OFDM transmitter

Jiangbo Zhu, Ziran Zhang, Shumin Zou, Nan Chi, Siyuan Yu

Published Jul 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a novel scheme to realize large group delay in a single ring resonator with an OFDM transmitter. The fundamental trade-off between transmission bandwidth and delay can be addressed with this new buffer.
DOI
10.1109/oecc.2012.6276386

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