Demonstration of a Free-Space Optical Delay Line Using Space-Time Wave Packets

Author(s):  
Murat Yessenov ◽  
Ayman F. Abouraddy
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Yessenov ◽  
Basanta Bhaduri ◽  
Peter J. Delfyett ◽  
Ayman F. Abouraddy

AbstractAn optical buffer featuring a large delay-bandwidth-product—a critical component for future all-optical communications networks—remains elusive. Central to its realization is a controllable inline optical delay line, previously accomplished via engineered dispersion in optical materials or photonic structures constrained by a low delay-bandwidth product. Here we show that space-time wave packets whose group velocity is continuously tunable in free space provide a versatile platform for constructing inline optical delay lines. By spatio-temporal spectral-phase-modulation, wave packets in the same or in different spectral windows that initially overlap in space and time subsequently separate by multiple pulse widths upon free propagation by virtue of their different group velocities. Delay-bandwidth products of  ~100 for pulses of width  ~1 ps are observed, with no fundamental limit on the system bandwidth.


Author(s):  
Murat Yessenov ◽  
Basanta Bhaduri ◽  
Peter J. Delfyett ◽  
Ayman F. Abouraddy

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Basha ◽  
N. Dechev ◽  
S. Safavi-Naeini ◽  
S. Chaudhuri

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (21) ◽  
pp. 2423-2426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Azer Reza ◽  
Tariq Shamim Khwaja ◽  
Mumtaz Sheikh

2001 ◽  
Vol 40 (34) ◽  
pp. 6334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Lai

2017 ◽  
Vol 402 ◽  
pp. 695-698
Author(s):  
Min-Hwan Lee ◽  
Sung-Hyun Kim ◽  
Eun-Sun Kim ◽  
In-Kag Hwang

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