Investigation of room-temperature slow light in photorefractives for optical buffer applications Conference Paper

abstract

• Lately, active research has been conducted in slowing down light pulses to the order of tens of meters per second or below. An interesting application would be an optical buffer for all optical routers, where solid state devices operating under room temperature are desired. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of such a device with a Ce:BaTiO3crystal. Group velocity as slow as 2 mm/s is obtained in the two-wave coupling experiment. By modulating the angular-multiplexed pump beams in the experiment, we also demonstrate the modulation of the output waveform, which could be used to address the problem of pulse broadening that so far limits the application of room temperature slow light.

name of conference

• Advanced Optical and Quantum Memories and Computing

authors

• Hemmer, Philip

published proceedings

• ADVANCED OPTICAL AND QUANTUM MEMORIES AND COMPUTING

author list (cited authors)

• Deng, Z. J., & Hemmer, P. R.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Deng, ZJ||Hemmer, PR

editor list (cited editors)

• Coufal, H. J., & Hasan, Z. U.

publication date

• June 2004

publisher

• SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of SPIE  Journal

keywords

• Ce : Batio3
• Optical Buffer
• Photorefractives
• Slow Light
• Two-wave Coupling

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1117/12.528124

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-8194-5270-X

start page

• 81

end page

• 89

volume

• 5362