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Cover Picture: Laser & Photon. Rev. 6(6)/2012
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
laser and photonics reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.778
H-Index - 116
eISSN - 1863-8899
pISSN - 1863-8880
DOI - 10.1002/lpor.201290012
Subject(s) - laser , cover (algebra) , birefringence , photonics , photon , signal (programming language) , computer science , brillouin scattering , optics , waveform , physics , pulse (music) , acoustics , telecommunications , radar , engineering , mechanical engineering , programming language , detector
Light storage in a highly birefringent optical fibre through the intercession of an acoustic vibration in the medium. The stored signal interacts with a writing pulse through stimulated Brillouin scattering to create an acoustic wave replicating the signal waveform as a vibration in the material. The signal can be faithfully retrieved a moment later in the orthogonal polarization using a read pulse that is reflected on the grating generated by the acoustic vibration. Picture: S. Chin, L. Thévenaz, pp. 724 – 738, in this issue)