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The Review of Laser Engineering

Optical Devices Using Slow Light in Bragg Refl ector Waveguides

Fumio Koyama, Ayumi Fuchida

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The manipulation of the speed of light has been attracting much interest for optical buffers and optical
DOI
10.2184/lsj.37.591

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