Title :
Soliton-like propagation in biexciton two-photon resonant region
Author :
Sakai, M. ; Kunugita, H. ; Ema, K. ; Nagai, M. ; Gonokami, M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Sophia Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Soliton-like pulse propagation in the exciton resonant region is the issue of current interest because of their importance in the ultrafast optical switching devices. Although several types of polariton solitons at exciton resonance have been theoretically proposed, experimental studies for soliton-like propagation in such region have not been fully explored. Recently, we proposed a new scheme of soliton-like propagation supported by biexciton two-photon dispersion, and demonstrated a preliminary indication of our scheme using biexciton two-photon resonance (TPR) in CuCl. In the present study, we perform sub-ps pulse propagation experiments under several conditions using biexciton TPR in CuCl. We compare the results with the calculated results using the frequency domain wave equation. We obtain good agreement between them, and confirm soliton-like propagation supported by biexciton two-photon dispersion
Keywords :
biexcitons; copper compounds; high-speed optical techniques; optical solitons; polaritons; two-photon processes; CuCl; biexciton two-photon dispersion; biexciton two-photon resonance; biexciton two-photon resonant region; exciton resonance; exciton resonant region; frequency domain wave equation; polariton solitons; soliton-like propagation; soliton-like pulse propagation; sub-ps pulse propagation experiments; ultrafast optical switching devices; Excitons; Frequency; Optical devices; Optical propagation; Physics; Polarization; Pulse shaping methods; Resonance; Shape; Space vector pulse width modulation;
Conference_Titel :
Nonlinear Optics '98: Materials, Fundamentals and Applications Topical Meeting
Conference_Location :
Kauai, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4950-4
DOI :
10.1109/NLO.1998.710269