Stable Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

Abstract

We have observed for the first time stable spatial solitons in semiconductor optical amplifiers. Soliton destabilization due to the growth of background noise was suppressed by using patterned electrodes on the device. Numerical simulations fit very well with the experiment results. We show that it is possible to excite these solitons with about 60 mW input power.

Chapter 6 Fundamentals and Applications of Spatial Dissipative Solitons in Photonic Devices

“…1 to introduce cavity solitons). The properties of these 1D SDS and their interesting, phase-sensitive interaction behavior was investigated in a sequence of papers (Ultanir et al (2003(Ultanir et al ( , 2004(Ultanir et al ( , 2006) and is reviewed in Ultanir et al (2005).…”

Transverse dynamics in cavity nonlinear optics (2000–2003)

“…The existence of stable dissipative spatial solitons at low intensities in patterned electrode semiconductor optical amplifiers has been predicted theoretically [146] and the observation reported soon afterwards [147].…”

Collisions between discrete spatiotemporal dissipative Ginzburg-Landau solitons in two-dimensional photonic lattices

“…Thus the presence of gain and loss due to optical amplifiers and saturable absorbers in truncated periodic photonic structures has been investigated and dissipative surface light bullets were introduced [46,47]. Similar to other types of discrete dissipative solitons in both oneand two-dimensional lattices [42][43][44][45], the dissipative surface light bullets exhibit novel features that, as a result of both discreteness and gain (loss) effects, have no counterpart in either the continuous limit or in other conservative discrete models for both cubic and quadratic nonlinear media [48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55].…”

“…It is well known that discrete dissipative solitons are possible in both one-and two-dimensional photonic lattices [42][43][44][45] and, as a result of discreteness, the dissipative systems exhibit novel features that have no counterpart in either the continuous limit or in other conservative discrete models.…”