title: Chirped Brillouin dynamic gratings for storing and compressing light.
abstract: We demonstrate theoretically that chirped dynamic gratings can be created in optical fibers through stimulated Brillouin scattering with frequency-chirped "signal" and "write" pulses. When the grating is interrogated with a third pulse of the opposite chirp, a compressed signal pulse is retrieved. This provides a method to regenerate stored pulses and enhance signal levels for communications applications.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia. arrays@umich.edu
authors.forename: Herbert G
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Winful
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D044962:Data Compression / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*