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IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN QUANTUM ELECTRONICS
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 4-16Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2002.807976
Keywords
anomalous group velocities; Bragg scattering; gratings; optical propagation
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Optical pulse propagation in photonic grating structures can show anomalous (i.e., superluminal or negative) group velocities under certain circumstances owing to the anomalous dispersive properties induced by the periodic grating structure. Such phenomena can be observed for either linear pulse propagation in passive dielectric grating structures, such as in fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), as well as in frequency-conversion processes exploiting second-order cascading effects in quasi-phase-matched (QPM) nonlinear crystals. Engineering of the grating structure can be exploited to observe a wide variety of anomalous pulse transmission and reflection behaviors. In this article, we review the main recent experimental and theoretical achievements obtained by our group in this field. In particular, we report on superluminal propagation of picosecond optical pulses at the 1.5-mum wavelength of optical communications in FBGs, both in transmission and reflection configurations, with the observation of group velocities as large as similar to 5(C0). We also show that the phenomenon of transparent pulse propagation at a negative group velocity in a gain doublet atomic amplifier, recently observed in cesium vapor by Wang and co-workers (L. J. Wang, A. Kuzmich, and A. Dogariu, Nature vol. 406, pp. 277-279, 2000), can be achieved as well in a photonic parametric amplifier by exploiting the anomalous dispersive properties of the amplifier induced by a suitably designed QPM grating profile.
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