Research Letters in Optics
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 253634, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/253634
Research Letter

Using Nonuniform Fiber to Generate Slow Light via SBS

Wenhai Li,1 Xiaoyi Bao,1 V. P. Kalosha,1 Liang Chen,1 and Ming-Jun Li2

1Department of Physics, Faculty of science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5, Canada
2Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY 14831, USA

Received 25 February 2008; Accepted 28 March 2008

Academic Editor: Wojtek J. Bock

Copyright © 2008 Wenhai Li et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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