Fundamental limitations of slow-light optical buffers

1 January 2005

conference paper
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Vol. 3
https://doi.org/10.1109/ofc.2005.192829

Abstract

We show that slow-light optical delay-line buffers are constrained by fundamental physical limitations. We compare the capabilities of a variety of buffer technologies including electromagnetically induced transparency, population pulsations, photonic crystal filters, and fibre-based delay lines.

Keywords

OPTICAL BUFFERING
DELAY LINES
OPTICAL FILTERS
BUFFER STORAGE
OPTICAL PACKET SWITCHING
OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING
OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION
SLOW LIGHT
OPTICAL PUMPING
PHOTONIC CRYSTALS

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