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Slow light propagation in a ring erbium-doped fiber
K Bencheikh1, E Baldit, S Briaudeau
1Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures, CNRS UPR20, F-91460 Marcoussis, France. kamel.bencheikh@lpn.cnrs.fr
Optics Express
|December 18, 2010
Abstract:
Slow light propagation is demonstrated by implementing Coherent Population Oscillations in a silica fiber doped with erbium ions in a ring surrounding the single mode core. Though only the wings of the mode interact with erbium ions, group velocities around 1360 m/s are obtained without any spatial distortion of the propagating mode.
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