Dissipative spatial solitons in active semiconductor optical amplifiers

Author

Stegeman, G.I. ; Ultanir, E. ; Michaelis, D. ; Lange, C.H. ; Lederer, F.

Author_Institution

Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

29 June-3 July 2003

Abstract

Spatial solitons are self-trapped beams that are formed in electrically pumped semiconductor optical amplifiers under conditions for which diffraction is balanced by nonlinearity and gain is balanced by loss. They can be used as re-writable waveguides for communications signals. We will discuss the excitation of such solitons at 10´s mW power levels in AlGaAs multiquantum well amplifiers and the measurement of their unique properties. Excellent agreement with theory was obtained.

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; aluminium compounds; gallium arsenide; optical communication equipment; optical losses; optical solitons; quantum well lasers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; waveguide lasers; AlGaAs; AlGaAs multi-quantum well amplifiers; active semiconductor optical amplifiers; communications signals; dissipative spatial solitons; electrically pumped semiconductor optical amplifiers; laser gain; nonlinearity; power levels; re-writable waveguides; self-trapped beams; Laser excitation; Optical amplifiers; Optical diffraction; Optical losses; Optical waveguide theory; Optical waveguides; Power amplifiers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Semiconductor waveguides; Solitons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2003. Proceedings of 2003 5th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7816-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2003.1264560

Filename

1264560