Quasi-light-storage enhancement by reducing the Brillouin gain bandwidth

Stefan Preussler; Andrzej Wiatrek; Kambiz Jamshidi; Thomas Schneider

doi:10.1364/AO.50.004252

Quasi-light-storage enhancement by reducing the Brillouin gain bandwidth

Appl Opt. 2011 Aug 1;50(22):4252-6. doi: 10.1364/AO.50.004252.

Authors

Stefan Preussler¹, Andrzej Wiatrek, Kambiz Jamshidi, Thomas Schneider

Affiliation

¹ Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik, Hochschule für Telekommunikation Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. stefan.preuszler@hft‐leipzig.de

PMID: 21833096
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.004252

Abstract

The quasi-light-storage (QLS) is a method for the variable and almost distortion free storage of optical data which is based on stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS). The natural gain bandwidth of SBS limits the storage time of this method to up to 100 ns. We overcome this limit by the superposition of the SBS gain bandwidth with two losses. With this narrowed gain bandwidth, we were able to enhance the storage time for the QLS by 40%.