Slow light and all-optical delay lines using cavity solitons in semiconductor lasers

Author

Pedaci, F. ; Barland, S. ; Caboche, E. ; Genevet, P. ; Giudici, M. ; Tredicce, J.R. ; Tissoni, G. ; Ackemann, T. ; Scroggie, A.J. ; Firth, W.J. ; Oppo, G.L.

Author_Institution

Univ. de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, Valbonne

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

An all-optical delay line that is based on injecting an optical bit stream into an optical resonator, creating cavity solitons (CS) that drift transversely with a controllable velocity, is proposed and demonstrated. An optical injection experiment is performed in a broad area vertical cavity surface emitting laser emitting at 980 nm.

Keywords

laser cavity resonators; optical communication equipment; optical delay lines; optical solitons; surface emitting lasers; all-optical delay lines; broad area vertical cavity surface emitting laser; cavity solitons; optical bit stream; optical injection; optical resonator; semiconductor lasers; slow light; wavelength 980 nm; Delay lines; Optical control; Optical resonators; Optical solitons; Semiconductor lasers; Slow light; Stimulated emission; Surface emitting lasers; Velocity control; Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386104

Filename

4386104