title: Time delay enhancement in stimulated-Brillouin-scattering-based slow-light systems.
abstract: We show a simple method of time delay enhancement in slow-light systems based on the effect of stimulated Brillouin scattering. The method is based on the reduction of the absolute Brillouin gain by a loss produced by an additional pump laser. With this method we achieved pulse delays of nearly 100 ns in a standard single-mode fiber. In the presented approach the delay or acceleration of optical signals is decoupled from their amplification or attenuation, which allows the adaptation of the pulse amplitudes to the given application.
authors.affiliation: Deutsche Telekom AG, Fachhochschule Leipzig, Gustav-Freytag-Strasse 43-45, D-04277 Leipzig, Germany. schneider@fh-telekom-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Junker
authors.forename: Kai-Uwe
authors.initials: KU
authors.lastname: Lauterbach