Laser & Photonics Reviews

Cover Picture: Laser & Photon. Rev. 6(6)/2012

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)

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