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Slow and Fast Light (SL)

Analysis of CROW, SCISSOR and REMZI architectures in the slow-light regime

Vishnupriya Govindan, Steve Blair

Published Jan 1, 2008• 0 citations
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Abstract

Under the constraint of fixed pulse distortion, REMZI optical architecture has the highest bandwidth-delay product when compared to SCISSOR and CROW. In the nonlinear regime, nonlinear response fails to improve with increasing number of resonators, but inter-pulse interaction decreases.
DOI
10.1364/sl.2008.stub5

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