Cavity solitons in semiconductor microresonators: modeling aspects and role of thermal carrier-lattice dynamics

Author

Maggipinto, T. ; Perrini, I.M. ; Brambilla, M. ; Tissoni, G. ; Spinelli, L.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica, Bari Univ., Italy

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

110

Lastpage

114

Abstract

We study optical pattern formation and cavity solitons in semiconductor microcavities. We adopt a microscopic model that describes the field, the carrier and the temperature dynamics in the quasi-equilibrium regime, within the free-carrier approximation. A detailed study of the instabilities affecting the homogeneous stationary state of the output field is performed. In this way we can address the numerical research of pattern and cavity solitons

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; III-V semiconductors; carrier mobility; cavity resonators; gallium arsenide; lattice dynamics; micro-optics; micromechanical resonators; optical solitons; optical waveguide components; semiconductor device models; GaAs; cavity solitons; free-carrier approximation; homogeneous stationary state; instabilities; microscopic model; optical pattern formation; output field; quasi-equilibrium regime; semiconductor microresonators; temperature dynamics; thermal carrier-lattice dynamics; Charge carrier density; Gallium arsenide; Laser feedback; Microcavities; Microscopy; Nonlinear optics; Optical feedback; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Temperature;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2001. Proceedings of 2001 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cracow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7096-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2001.934731

Filename

934731