title: Maximizing the opening of eye diagrams for slow-light systems.
abstract: We present a data-fidelity metric for quantifying distortion in slow-light optical pulse delay devices. We demonstrate the utility of this metric by applying it to the performance optimization of gain-based slow-light delay systems for Gaussian and super-Gaussian pulses. Symmetric Lorentzian double-line and triple-line gain systems are optimized and achieve maximum delay of 1.5 and 1.7 times the single-line gain system delay, respectively. The resulting double-line gain system design is qualitatively similar to the double-line gain system designed with a previous metric, but is tuned specifically to constrain data fidelity.
authors.affiliation: College of Optical Sciences, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721, USA. rpant@email.arizona.edu
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pant
authors.forename: Michael D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Stenner
authors.forename: Mark A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Neifeld
authors.forename: Zhimin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Shi
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Boyd
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Gauthier