Slow light in optical fiber using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Valeri I. Kovalev; Robert G. Harrison; Jonathan C. Knight; Nadezha E. Kotova

doi:10.1117/12.801761

17 April 2008 Slow light in optical fiber using stimulated Brillouin scattering

Valeri I. Kovalev, Robert G. Harrison, Jonathan C. Knight, Nadezha E. Kotova

Proceedings Volume 7024, International Workshop on Quantum Optics 2007; 702415 (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.801761
Event: International Workshop on Quantum Optics 2003, 2003, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

The minimum duration of pulses, that can be delayed through so called "slow light" in stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) is limited by the relatively narrow bandwidth of SBS (~15-30 MHz). This limits useful data rates to less than a few Mb/s while for telecommunication applications multi-Gb/s is required. We propose implementation of waveguide induced spectral broadening of SBS in optical fiber to allow massive increase of its bandwidth (reduction of operational pulse duration) to thereby achieve high data rate. Our analysis shows that for fiber of numerical aperture ~0.8 the SBS bandwidth is enhanced to ~15 GHz.

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Valeri I. Kovalev, Robert G. Harrison, Jonathan C. Knight, and Nadezha E. Kotova "Slow light in optical fiber using stimulated Brillouin scattering", Proc. SPIE 7024, International Workshop on Quantum Optics 2007, 702415 (17 April 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.801761

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