Title

Stable spatial solitons in semiconductor optical amplifiers

Authors

Authors

E. A. Ultanir; D. Michaelis; F. Lederer;G. I. Stegeman

Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

LOCALIZED STRUCTURES; SATURABLE ABSORBER; FILAMENT FORMATION; SYSTEMS; LASERS; BEAMS; Optics

Abstract

The existence of stable dissipative spatial solitons at low intensities in patterned electrode semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) is predicted theoretically. In contrast to conventional SOAs, this system may support stable solitons because the inherent saturating losses provide subcritical bifurcations for both the plane-wave and,the soliton solution. (C) 2003 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

28

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

251

Last Page

253

WOS Identifier

WOS:000180757400011

ISSN

0146-9592

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