Realization of a Semiconductor-Based Cavity Soliton Laser

Tanguy, Yann; Ackemann, T.; Firth, W. J.; Jäger, R.

doi:10.1103/physrevlett.100.013907

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“…16 It was shown that dark pulse formation could be a general effect of a bistable nonlinear system subject to delayed feedback. The dark pulses reported by Zhang et al are the temporal equivalent of the cavity solitons reported by Tanguy et al 17 Considering that near a Hopf-bifurcation point the dynamics of a semiconductor laser with delayed feedback is similar to that of the CGLE, as theoretically pointed out by Giacomelli and Politi, 13 we speculate that the observed stable dark pulses could be a kind of the dark cavity solitons formed in the laser. The hypothesis is further supported by our experimental evidence that the multiple dark pulse formation as the feedback strength is increased.…”

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Periodic dark pulse emission induced by delayed feedback in a quantum well semiconductor laser

Tang

et al. 2012

AIP Advances

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Periodic dark pulse emission induced by delayed feedback in a quantum well semiconductor laser

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“…Numerous examples have been found in nonlinear optical resonators with coherent forcing (they often receive the name of spatial or temporal cavity solitons) [1][2][3][4][5][6] but also in laser systems [7][8][9][10] . In the latter case, the phase of the electric field is free to evolve in the course of time and a paradigmatic model is the cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation 7,[11][12][13] .…”

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Topological solitons as addressable phase bits in a driven laser

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Optical localized states are usually defined as self-localized bistable packets of light, which exist as independently controllable optical intensity pulses either in the longitudinal or transverse dimension of nonlinear optical systems. Here we demonstrate experimentally and analytically the existence of longitudinal localized states that exist fundamentally in the phase of laser light. These robust and versatile phase bits can be individually nucleated and canceled in an injection-locked semiconductor laser operated in a neuron-like excitable regime and submitted to delayed feedback. The demonstration of their control opens the way to their use as phase information units in next-generation coherent communication systems. We analyse our observations in terms of a generic model, which confirms the topological nature of the phase bits and discloses their formal but profound analogy with Sine-Gordon solitons.

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“…Deviations from the self-imaging conditions also make it more difficult to model the returning field distribution, though, in principle, methods like the Collins integral are available, of course [19]. On the other hand, a controlled deviation from the self-imaging condition might provide a convenient handle on coupling strength in arrays of lasers and laser solitons [10,12].…”

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“…The VCSEL used for this experiment is fabricated by Ulm Photonics and similar to the ones described in more detail in Refs. [6,7,[12][13][14]. It is a large-aperture device, allowing for the formation of many transverse cavity modes of fairly high order, with a 200-μm-diameter circular oxide aperture providing optical and current guiding.…”

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Analysis of spatial emission structures in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with feedback from a volume Bragg grating

Noblet¹,

Ackemann²

2012

Phys. Rev. A

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Realization of a Semiconductor-Based Cavity Soliton Laser

Cited by 166 publications

References 28 publications

Periodic dark pulse emission induced by delayed feedback in a quantum well semiconductor laser

Periodic dark pulse emission induced by delayed feedback in a quantum well semiconductor laser

Topological solitons as addressable phase bits in a driven laser

Analysis of spatial emission structures in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with feedback from a volume Bragg grating

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