As such, electronic regenerators are preferred. If the nonlinearity were to be enhanced by slow-light effects, possibly to a similar magnitude as mentioned above, much lower-power operation could ...

et al. Slow light and chromatic temporal dispersion in photonic crystal waveguides using femtosecond time of flight. Phys. Rev. Lett. 73, 016619 (2006). Engelen, R. J. P. et al. The effect of ...

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