Publications related to Slow light

Brillouin scattering in gas-filled hollow-core fibres

Edward E. Hagenlocker and William G. Rado demonstrated Brillouin interaction in gas for the first time in 1965, right after the very first demonstrations of stimulated Brillouin scattering in solid materials. In their experiment, they used a megawatt pulse ...

EPFL2020

Light Confinement and Nonlinear Light-Matter Interaction in Semiconductor Photonic Crystal Cavities

Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Aliem Mohamed

The ability to control and manipulate light is a fundamental aspect that is at the very core of the development of integrated photonic circuits. It is desirable to achieve such control down to a scale that is comparable to or smaller than the wavelength of ...

EPFL2018

Sampling Models in Light Fields

Zhou Xue

What is the actual information contained in light rays filling the 3-D world? Leonardo da Vinci saw the world as an infinite number of radiant pyramids caused by the objects located in it. Nowadays, the radiant pyramid is usually described as a set of ligh ...

EPFL2016

Wide-band slow light in compact photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguides

Vincenzo Savona, Momchil Minkov

Slow light has a variety of applications, in particular for enhanced nonlinear effects like four-wave mixing and high-harmonic generation. Here, we propose a photonic crystal coupled-cavity waveguide with an ultracompact arrangement of the constituent cavi ...

Optical Soc Amer2015

Gas Sensing using Material and Structural Slow Light Systems

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Isabelle Dicaire

Slowing light is expected to enhance light-matter interaction, leading to more compact sensing devices. By simple tests we show that the reality is more complex and the only relevant quantity is the wave electric field. ...

Optical Society of America2012

Slow Light Devices and Their Applications to Microwaves and Photonics

Luc Thévenaz

Recently developed, highly effective technologies enabling slow light propagation as a tunable feature in photonic devices, are reviewed. Several applications in ICT are also demonstrated. Controlling the group velocity of light offers a broadband solution ...

2012

Enhancing the light-matter interaction using slow light: towards the concept of dense light

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Isabelle Dicaire

A couple of experiments are here presented to clarify the impact of slow light on light-matter interaction. The experiments are designed, so that the process generating slow light and the probed light-matter interaction only present a marginal cross-effect ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Tunable photonic delay lines in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

A comprehensive overview is presented about optical fiber-based tunable photonic delay lines, which have been steadily developed over the last decade for the realization of all-optically controlled timing functions. The most widely used techniques, such as ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2012

Kerr effect in structured superluminal media

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Andrey Denisov

A comprehensive overview is presented about optical fiber-based tunable photonic delay lines, which have been steadily developed over the last decade for the realization of all-optically controlled timing functions. The most widely used techniques, such as ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Probing molecular absorption under slow-light propagation using a photonic crystal waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire

High-resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of acetylene gas is demonstrated in a dispersion-engineered photonic crystal waveguide under slow-light propagation. Experimental enhancement factors of 0.31 and 1.00 are obtained for TE and TM polarization, ...

2012

Probing molecular absorption under slow light propagation using a photonic crystal waveguide

Luc Thévenaz, Isabelle Dicaire

High-resolution infrared absorption spectroscopy of acetylene gas is demonstrated in dispersion-engineered photonic crystal waveguides under slow light propagation. Individual absorption profiles are obtained for both TE and TM polarizations for group indi ...

Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2012

Optical Gas-Phase Frequency References Based on Photonic Crystal Technology : Impact of Slow Light on Molecular Absorption

Isabelle Dicaire

Optical frequency references are devices providing well-defined and stable optical frequency responses to incoming radiation for applications such as high-precision spectroscopy and optical fibre communications. To stabilise the emission frequency of laser ...

EPFL2012

Dispersion Properties of Photonic Crystals and Silicon Nanostructures Investigated by Fourier-Space Imaging

Jana Jágerská

State-of-the-art nanophotonic devices based on semiconductor technology use total internal reflection or the photonic bandgap effect to reduce the waveguide core dimensions down to hundreds of nanometers, ensuring strong optical confinement within the scal ...

EPFL2011

Development of Terahertz Photonic Crystal Quantum Cascade Lasers and Investigation on IIIV&SOI Photonic Structures at Near-Infrared Wavelength

Hua Zhang

Photonic crystals (PhC) are periodically structured electromagnetic media, in which light within some frequency ranges cannot propagate through the structure. Such frequency ranges are commonly referred as photonic band gaps (PBG). The length scale of the ...

EPFL2010

Experimental verification of the effect of slow light on molecular absorption

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin, Stella Foaleng Mafang, Isabelle Dicaire

The absorption of light by a gas molecule has been measured comparatively using light propagating in normal conditions and in a slow light regime. The experiment is designed to make the 2 measurements possible without modifying the interaction conditions, ...

SPIE2009

Governing the speed of a light signal in optical fibers : Brillouin slow and fast light

Sang Hoon Chin

Dynamic control of the speed of a light signal, based on stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers, was theoretically studied and also experimentally demonstrated as the core object of this thesis. To date, slow light based on stimulated Brillouin ...

EPFL2009

Light transport regimes in slow light photonic crystal waveguides

The dispersive properties of waves are strongly affected by inevitable residual disorder in man-made propagating media, in particular in the slow wave regime. By a direct measurement of the dispersion curve in k space, we show that the nature of the guided ...

2009

Optical apparatus for dual beam heterodyne Fourier domain optical coherence tomography, has detector that synchronizes phase shift such that sample signal or sample interface moving at arbitrary velocity is detected by phase change

Theo Lasser, Rainer Leitgeb, Martin Villiger, Adrian Bachmann, Roland Michaely

NOVELTY - The apparatus has an optical unit for splitting a source field to produce and combine reference and biomedical sample light fields. An optical and electronic unit records a spectral interference pattern between combined light fields. A controlled ...

2008

Simple scheme for realizing fast light with low distortion in optical fibers

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

In a previous paper (Song et al., 2005) we reported the first experimental demonstration of pulse advancement with gain in optical fibers using stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). We tested the two methods described above to achieve gain-assisted fast l ...

IEEE2007

Simple technique to achieve fast light in gain regime using Brillouin scattering

Luc Thévenaz, Sang Hoon Chin

We describe a novel technique based on stimulated Brillouin scattering for propagating fast light (signal advancement) with low distortion in optical fibers. The essence of the technique relies on the presence of two separate gain resonances in the Brillou ...

2007