Approach to Accurately Measuring the Speed of Optical Precursors

Authors

Chuan-Feng Li, University of Science and Technology of China
Zong-Quan Zhou, University of Science and Technology of China
Heejeong Jeong, Dartmouth College
Guang-Can Guo, University of Science and Technology of China

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-4-2011

Publication Title

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Department

Thayer School of Engineering

Abstract

Precursors can serve as a bound on the speed of information with dispersive medium. We propose a method to identify the speed of optical wavefronts using polarization-based interference in a solid-state device, which can bound the accuracy of the speed of wavefronts to less than 10−4 with conventional experimental conditions. Our proposal may have important implications for optical communications and fast information processing.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevA.84.043803

Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation

Li, Chuan-Feng; Zhou, Zong-Quan; Jeong, Heejeong; and Guo, Guang-Can, "Approach to Accurately Measuring the Speed of Optical Precursors" (2011). Dartmouth Scholarship. 2544.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/2544