Wide-bandwidth, tunable, multiple-pulse-width optical delays using slow light in cesium vapor.
We demonstrate an all-optical delay line in hot cesium vapor that tunably delays 275 ps input pulses up to 6.8 ns and 740 input ps pulses up to 59 ns (group index of approximately 200) with little pulse distortion. The delay is made tunable with a fast reconfiguration time (hundreds of ns) by optically pumping out of the atomic ground states.
Camacho
Ryan M
RM
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA.
Pack
Michael V
MV
Howell
John C
JC
Schweinsberg
Aaron
A
Boyd
Robert W
RW