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Slow Light Devices and Their Applications to Microwaves and Photonics

Recently developed, highly effective technologies enabling slow light propagation as a tunable feature in photonic devices, are reviewed. Several applications in ICT are also demonstrated. Controlling the group velocity of light offers a broadband solution ...

2012

Enhancing the light-matter interaction using slow light: towards the concept of dense light

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Isabelle Dicaire

A couple of experiments are here presented to clarify the impact of slow light on light-matter interaction. The experiments are designed, so that the process generating slow light and the probed light-matter interaction only present a marginal cross-effect ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Tunable photonic delay lines in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

A comprehensive overview is presented about optical fiber-based tunable photonic delay lines, which have been steadily developed over the last decade for the realization of all-optically controlled timing functions. The most widely used techniques, such as ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2012

Kerr effect in structured superluminal media

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Andrey Denisov

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Probing molecular absorption under slow-light propagation using a photonic crystal waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire

High-resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of acetylene gas is demonstrated in a dispersion-engineered photonic crystal waveguide under slow-light propagation. Experimental enhancement factors of 0.31 and 1.00 are obtained for TE and TM polarization, ...

2012

Probing molecular absorption under slow light propagation using a photonic crystal waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire

High-resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of acetylene gas is demonstrated in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal waveguides under slow light propagation. Individual absorption profiles are obtained for both TE and TM polarizations for group indi ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Optical Gas-Phase Frequency References Based on Photonic Crystal Technology

Isabelle Dicaire

Optical frequency references are devices providing well-defined and stable optical frequency responses to incoming radiation for applications such as high-precision spectroscopy and optical fibre communications. To stabilise the emission frequency of laser ...

EPFL2012

Dispersion Properties of Photonic Crystals and Silicon Nanostructures Investigated by Fourier-Space Imaging

Jana Jágerská

State-of-the-art nanophotonic devices based on semiconductor technology use total internal reflection or the photonic bandgap effect to reduce the waveguide core dimensions down to hundreds of nanometers, ensuring strong optical confinement within the scal ...

EPFL2011

Development of Terahertz Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Lasers and Investigation on IIIV&SOI Photonic Structures at Near-Infrared Wavelength

Hua Zhang

Photonic crystals (PhC) are periodically structured electromagnetic media, in which light within some frequency ranges cannot propagate through the structure. Such frequency ranges are commonly referred as photonic band gaps (PBG). The length scale of the ...

EPFL2010

Experimental verification of the effect of slow light on molecular absorption

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Isabelle Dicaire, Stella Foaleng Mafang

The absorption of light by a gas molecule has been measured comparatively using light propagating in normal conditions and in a slow light regime. The experiment is designed to make the 2 measurements possible without modifying the interaction conditions, ...

SPIE2009

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