DocumentCode :
2081452
Title :
Pulsing and excitable solitons in a semiconductor laser with saturable absorber
Author :
Tissoni, Giovanna ; Prati, Franco ; Brambilla, Massimo
Author_Institution :
Inst. Non Lineaire de Nice, Valbonne, France
fYear :
2011
fDate :
22-26 May 2011
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
1
Abstract :
Cavity solitons (CS) are controllable localized light peaks on a low-intensity, homogeneous (or quasi homogeneous) background and offer a variety of applications from optical memories to all-optical delay lines. A semiconductor laser (VCSEL) with an intracavity saturable absorber realizes a cavity soliton laser, where the CS sit over a zero-intensity background, and may behave as independent microlasers. In this system, stable CS can exist in the interval where the upper homogeneous stationary branch coexists with the stable non-lasing solution.
Keywords :
optical delay lines; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; optical storage; semiconductor lasers; all-optical delay lines; cavity soliton laser; excitable solitons; intracavity saturable absorber; localized light peaks; microlasers; optical memories; semiconductor laser; Cavity resonators; Laser excitation; Optical solitons; Semiconductor lasers; Stability analysis;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
ISSN :
Pending
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943551
Filename :
5943551
Link To Document :
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