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Harnessing slow light

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Slow-light techniques originally conceived for buffering high-speed digital optical signals now look set to play an important role in providing broadband phase and true time delays for microwave signals.

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Figure 1: Implementation of tunable phase shift and true time delay in a photonic resonant medium.
Figure 2: Photonic integrated circuits for MWP applications.

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  • 14 December 2011

    In the original print and online versions of this Industry Perspective, the distances marked in Fig. 2a should have been 400 μm. This error has been corrected for both the PDF and HTML versions.

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  1. José Capmany, Ivana Gasulla and Salvador Sales are researchers at the Optical and Quantum Communications Group, Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain,

    José Capmany, Ivana Gasulla & Salvador Sales

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Capmany, J., Gasulla, I. & Sales, S. Harnessing slow light. Nature Photon 5, 731–733 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.290

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