Slow-light optical buffers: capabilities and fundamental limitations

By Rodney S. Tucker, P. Ku, Connie J. Chang-Hasnain. Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2005

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Binary bat algorithm (2013, methodology): “PCW has been used in nonlinear optics [34], time-domain signal processing [35], and all-optical buffers [35, 36].”
Ultracompact optical buffers on a silicon chip (2007, background): “…media 3,4 or vibrational transitions in glass ﬁbres 5 has been shown to produce very large optical delays 6–8 , the spectral bandwidth of such slow-light media, being at most in the megahertz range, is too narrow for buffering of the multi-Gbps data stream required for optical interconnects 7,8 .”
Slow light in photonic crystals (2008, background): “A fundamental limit to the first of these is the delay–bandwidth product (DBP), which affects all approaches to slow ligh”
Fundamentals and Applications of Slow Light (2010, background): “Nonetheless, there exist serious more fundamental limits [92, 76, 38] on the maximum fractional delay that a single-channel slow-light medium can produce.”
Tunable Delay Lines in Silicon Photonics: Coupled Resonators and Photonic Crystals, a Comparison (2010, background): “Among the variety of features connected to the concept of slow light, the ability of controlling the optical group velocity and/or the group delay of the light can find applications in the realization of variable delay lines and devices for optical storage and buffering [ 1 ].”
The Role of Optics and Electronics in High-Capacity Routers (2006, background): “lines, it is necessary to ensure that the width of the passband of the delay line is matched to the signal bandwidth [18].”