Title :
Discrete Midband Cavity Solitons
Author :
Egorov, Oleg ; Lederer, Falk
Author_Institution :
Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena
Abstract :
Midband discrete cavity soliton (DCS) was shown for a laser with saturable absorber with a laterally modulated refractive index. These "midband" solitons have a fixed inclination and can be much narrower than solitons excited at the edges of the Brillouin zone. In this paer, we demonstrate the existence of "midband" DCSs in cavities with the purely refractive (Kerr-) nonlinearity driven by the external coherent optical field.
Keywords :
laser cavity resonators; optical Kerr effect; optical saturable absorption; optical solitons; refractive index; Brillouin zone; discrete midband cavity solitons; external coherent optical field; laser cavities; laterally modulated refractive index; refractive Kerr-nonlinearity; saturable absorber; Distributed control; Optical arrays; Optical beams; Optical coupling; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Resonance; Solid state circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0931-0
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386872
