Abstract
A new radio-frequency (RF) photonic technique for achieving large RF time delays has been experimentally demonstrated using femtosecond pulses modulated by an acousto-optic tunable filter in a frequency-mapped and Doppler-shifted modulation scheme. A short optical delay line with length of produces nearly RF time delay after optical heterodyne detection, resulting in an effective slow-light velocity of . A delay-to-pulse-width ratio of 20 based on this technique has been observed, with a larger fractional delay foreseeable.
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