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Slow-light effects in microfiber coil resonator

Chengju Ma, Haiwei Fu, Yinggang Liu

Published Oct 25, 2016• 0 citations

Abstract

At present, miniaturized, low loss and integrated slow-light elements are the urgent needs for the slow-light technology development. In this paper, we study the slow-ight effects in a compact microfiber coil resonator (MCR) structure and fabricate the compact MCR slow-light element. Furthermore, we test its slow-light properties and find that the optical pulse propagating in the MCR can be delayed about 30 ps. By caculating, we find that the group velocity of the light pulse propagating in the MCR slow-light element can be reduced to about 0.47c (c is the speed of light in vacuum) and the shape of the light pulse passing through the MCR keeps well.

DOI: 10.1117/12.2243592

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