Brillouin slow light in optical fibers is a promising technique for the development of all-optical buffers to be used in optical routers. The main drawback of this technique up to now has been its narrow bandwidth, normally restricted to 35 MHz in conventi ...
We experimentally demonstrate a novel technique to realize a tunable delay line based on dynamic Brillouin gratings in a high birefringence fiber. A 8ns pulse signal is continuously delayed up to 184ns with minor distortion. ...
Classical configurations of Brillouin distributed optical fibre sensors show a spatial resolution limited by the phonon lifetime to 1 meter. Novel approaches can substantially overcome this limit through the prior activation of the acoustic wave. ...
We experimentally demonstrate that Brillouin slow light with an arbitrary large bandwidth can be readily obtained in conventional optical fibers using a simple and inexpensive pump spectral broadening technique ...
This paper reviews the major advances in Brillouin slow light devices along the last two years. We also focus on the positive and negative implications of this effect in the development of fiber sensors. ...
