Slow light engineering in photonic crystals

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作者：
Baba, Toshihiko [1 ]
Mori, Daisuke [1 ]
机构：
[1] Yokohama Natl Univ, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Japan Sci & Technol Agcy, Crest Project,Hodogaya Ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 2408501, Japan
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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS D-APPLIED PHYSICS | 2007年 / 40卷 / 09期
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10.1088/0022-3727/40/9/S06
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O59 [应用物理学];
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摘要：
Light showing extremely slow propagation ( known as slow light) provides various effects such as spatial compression of optical signals, buffering, convolution integral calculation, beam forming, and enhancement of optical absorption, gain, nonlinearity, and so on. To generate such light, very large material or structural dispersion is used. Photonic crystal waveguides are good candidates for many device applications since they can easily generate slow light at room temperature. This paper discusses the potential of slow light devices while explaining some critical issues, such as the delay-bandwidth product and the dispersion compensation.
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