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  1. Slow -light lidar scans independently in two dimensions

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    Thu, 9 Feb 2012

    dimensional (1D) steering of a lidar beam using slow light have now used two independent slow - light mechanisms to steer a lidar beam in two dimensions ..... 5 GHz Brillouin frequency shift. An SBS slow - light module consists of 2.2 km of DSF with a counterpropagating

  2. INTEGRATED PHOTONICS: Slow light is created on a printed-circuit board

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    Wed, 1 Jun 2011

    The generation of “ slow light ” (in which the group velocity ..... telecommunications or optical data processing. Slow - light generation was first accomplished ..... American scientists has produced slow light in polymer waveguides on an ordinary

  1. NONLINEAR OPTICS: Slow light boosts electro-optic effect in lithium niobate

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    Fri, 1 Jun 2007

    By adding a photonic-crystal (PC) structure to lithium niobate (LN) to slow light within the material, researchers at the Institute-Femto-ST (Besançon, France) drastically enhance the electro-optic effect

  2. IMAGE PROCESSING: All-optical image delay uses slow -light medium

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    Thu, 1 Mar 2007

    on data-storage systems. Using slow light , researchers in the Department ..... average per pulse-because the slow - light medium used in the experiment is ..... additional laser beams. Hot vapor Other slow - light techniques such as electromagnetically

  3. INTEGRATED PHOTONICS: High-contrast gratings forge ultralow-loss, slow -light waveguide

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    Tue, 27 Mar 2012

    experimentally demonstrate a hollow-core, slow - light waveguide with ultralow loss compared ..... engineered for high dispersion or “ slow light ” properties that are useful for ..... integrated optoelectronic devices. A slow - light , hollow-core waveguide array

  4. PHOTONIC CRYSTALS: Light is coupled efficiently into slow -light waveguide

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    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    of the easier ways to achieve " slow light "—the propagation of light at ..... This is fortunate, because slow light is useful in modulators, optical ..... light is not easy to couple into a slow - light PCW; the mismatch in group velocity

  5. PHOTONIC CRYSTALS: Light is coupled efficiently into slow -light waveguide

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    Wed, 1 Dec 2010

    of the easier ways to achieve " slow light "—the propagation of light at ..... This is fortunate, because slow light is useful in modulators, optical ..... light is not easy to couple into a slow - light PCW; the mismatch in group velocity

  6. PHOTONIC FRONTIERS: SLOW LIGHT -Slow light looks good for optical buffers

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    Sun, 1 Oct 2006

    As with atomic vapors, the bandwidth available for slow light is limited, in this case by the population recovery time ..... particularly strong in silicon, opening prospects for slow light on chips. Gaeta and Michal Lipson at Cornell demonstrated

  7. IBM scientists slow light , and control it, in silicon

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    Fri, 4 Nov 2005

    have known for some years how to slow light to a crawl under laboratory conditions ..... ability to more closely control this " slow light " could make the technology useful ..... on this work, "Active control of slow light on a chip with photonic crystal waveguides

  8. METAMATERIALS: Slow light could make for a fast Web

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    Wed, 1 Oct 2008

    Advances in the use of metamaterials for negative refraction are being fancifully described by the media, but their first real application might be less exotic than some that have been proposed.