Spatial Solitary Waves in the Coupled Wave-Carrier Systems of Semiconductor Gain Media

Autor: Yan Sun, C. Geoff Fanning
Rok vydání: 1996
Zdroj: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe.
DOI: 10.1364/cleo_europe.1996.ctuj5
Popis: The study of spatial optical solitons has become a hot topic because of its importance in scientific research and technological applications. It is interesting to investigate solitons in semiconductor gain media. Besides enjoying wide technical application, a semiconductor gain medium is near absorption resonance and its nonlinearity stems from the gain saturation and the antiguiding factor. The resulting nonlinear Schrödinger equation is more complicated than that for a Kerr-medium. Spatial solitary waves have been experimentally observed recently. Here we show analytically that spatial solitary waves exist in a semiconductor gain medium pumped just above a threshold value. Numerical simulations show that these spatial solitary waves are not perturbation stable, but can propagate long enough for practical device applications.
Databáze: OpenAIRE