Abstract
We present a technique for improving the pulse-delay performance of a stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) based broadband slow-light system by combining it with fiber Bragg gratings (FBG). We optimize the physical device parameters of three systems: (1) broadband SBS, (2) , and (3) for maximizing the delay performance. The optimization is performed under distortion and system resource constraints for a range of bit rates from 0.5 to . We find that an optimized system improves the fractional delay 1.8 times that of the broadband SBS system at an optimum bit rate of . Also, pump power consumption is reduced by 15% as compared to the broadband SBS system at the same bit rate.
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