Paper| Year: | 2015 |
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| Author(s): | M. Marconi, J. Javaloyes, S. Barland, S. Balle, M. Giudici |
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| Title: | Vectorial dissipative solitons in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with delays |
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| Journal: | Nature Photonics |
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| ISSN: | 1749-4885 |
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| JCR Impact Factor: | 31.167 |
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| Volume: | 9 |
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| Issue No.: | 7 |
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| Pages: | 450-455 |
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| D.O.I.: | 10.1038/nphoton.2015.92 |
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| Web: | http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nphoton.2015.92.html |
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| Abstract: | We show that the nonlinear polarization dynamics of a
vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser placed in an external
cavity lead to the emission of temporal dissipative solitons.
These are vectorial solitons because they appear as localized
pulses in the polarized output, but leave the total intensity
constant. When the cavity roundtrip time is much longer than the
soliton duration, several independent solitons as well as bound
states (molecules) may be hosted in the cavity. All these solitons
coexist together and with the background solution. The
experimental results are well described by a theoretical model
that can be reduced to a single delayed equation for the
polarization orientation, which allows the vectorial solitons to
be interpreted as polarization kinks. A Floquet analysis is used
to confirm the mutual independence of the observed solitons. |
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