• DocumentCode
    2848305
  • Title

    Compression of femtosecond pulses into dissipative few-cycle optical solitons in coherent nonlinear resonant media

  • Author

    Wabnitz, Stefan ; Rosanov, Nikolay N. ; Kozlov, Victor V.

  • Author_Institution
    Dipt. di Ing. dell´´Inf., Univ.´´ di Brescia, Brescia, Italy
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    19-23 Sept. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    A composite resonant material consisting of amplifying and absorbing two-level quantum dots in a semiconductor host with conductive loss compresses a femtosecond pulse down to one-two optical cycles forming stable solitons.
  • Keywords
    composite materials; laser cavity resonators; light absorption; light coherence; optical losses; optical materials; optical pulse compression; optical pulse generation; optical solitons; quantum dot lasers; absorbing two-level quantum dots; amplifying two-level quantum dots; coherent nonlinear resonant media; composite resonant material; conductive loss; dissipative few-cycle optical solitons; femtosecond pulse compression; semiconductor host; stable solitons; Atomic clocks; Nonlinear optics; Optical pulses; Optical solitons; Resonant frequency; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical Communication (ECOC), 2010 36th European Conference and Exhibition on
  • Conference_Location
    Torino
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8536-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8534-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ECOC.2010.5621454
  • Filename
    5621454