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Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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Dissipative Solitons

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We present recent experimental and numerical results for dissipative propagating spatial solitons in periodically-patterned semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). These devices are designed to suppress the destabilization of solitons due to the amplification of noise in the soliton tails in uniformly-pumped SOAs. We briefly describe the fabrication of these devices. The zero-parameter and non-local characteristics of the solitons are studied experimentally and compared with simulations. We have also investigated soliton interactions, accounting for the effects of non-locality and zero-parameter properties.

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  1. School of Optics and CREOL, University of Central Florida, 4000 Central Florida Blvd, 162700, FL 32816-2700, Orlando, USA

    E. Ultanir & G.I. Stegeman

  2. Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Mechanics, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 7, 07745, Jena, Germany

    D. Michaelis

  3. Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743, Jena, Germany

    C.H. Lange & F. Lederer

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Ultanir, E., Stegeman, G., Michaelis, D., Lange, C., Lederer, F. Dissipative Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers. In: Akhmediev, N., Ankiewicz, A. (eds) Dissipative Solitons. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10928028_3

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