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Governing the speed of a light signal in optical fibers

Dynamic control of the speed of a light signal, based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers, was theoretically studied and also experimentally demonstrated as the core object of this thesis. To date, slow light based on stimulated Brillouin ...

EPFL2009

Slow Light and Fast Light in Optical Fiber

Luc Thévenaz

Fiber slow light systems are at a turning point moving from a laboratory research to real applications. The possibility to shape the spectral resonance in Brillouin slow light leads to innovative solutions and makes possible the realization of optimized co ...

Optical Society of America2009

Light transport regimes in slow light photonic crystal waveguides

The dispersive properties of waves are strongly affected by inevitable residual disorder in man-made propagating media, in particular in the slow wave regime. By a direct measurement of the dispersion curve in k space, we show that the nature of the guided ...

2009

Light transport regimes in slow light photonic crystal waveguides

Romuald Houdré, Hua Zhang, Nicolas Le Thomas, Jana Jágerská, Vasily Zabelin

2009

Optical apparatus for dual beam heterodyne Fourier domain optical coherence tomography, has detector that synchronizes phase shift such that sample signal or sample interface moving at arbitrary velocity is detected by phase change

Theo Lasser, Rainer Leitgeb, Martin Villiger, Adrian Bachmann, Roland Michaely

NOVELTY - The apparatus has an optical unit for splitting a source field to produce and combine reference and biomedical sample light fields. An optical and electronic unit records a spectral interference pattern between combined light fields. A controlled ...

2008

Optical phase conjugation for turbidity suppression in biological samples

Demetri Psaltis

Elastic optical scattering, the dominant light-interaction process in biological tissues, prevents tissues from being transparent. Although scattering may appear stochastic, it is in fact deterministic in nature. We show that, despite experimental imperfec ...

2008

Simple scheme for realizing fast light with low distortion in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

In a previous paper (Song et al., 2005) we reported the first experimental demonstration of pulse advancement with gain in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). We tested the two methods described above to achieve gain-assisted fast l ...

IEEE2007

Simple technique to achieve fast light in gain regime using Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

We describe a novel technique based on stimulated Brillouin scattering for propagating fast light (signal advancement) with low distortion in optical fibers. The essence of the technique relies on the presence of two separate gain resonances in the Brillou ...

2007

Miniaturized optical tweezer array with an array of reflective elements for reflecting the light back to a focal area

René Salathé, Fabrice Merenda, Guy Delacrétaz, Gerben Boer

Apparatus for forming a single or a plurality of threedimensional optical traps, the apparatus comprising: a. A collimated light source that is directed onto an array of focalizing refractive or diffractive elements providing a single or a plurality of foc ...

2007

Slowing light in optical fibres sees fast progress

Luc Thévenaz

Slowing down light to produce optical delay lines for communication networks has advanced enormously in the last year. Luc Thévenaz and Miguel Gonzalez-Herraez chart this recent progress and describe the new challenges facing developers of practical device ...

IOP Publishing2006

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