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Spatial Semiconductor-Resonator Solitons

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Optical Solitons

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 613))

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We demonstrate experimentally and numerically the existence of spatial solitons in multiple-quantum-well semiconductor microresonators driven by an external coherent optical field. We discuss stability of the semiconductor-resonator solitons over a wide spectral range around the band edge. We demonstrate the manipulation of such solitons: switching solitons on and off by coherent as well as incoherent light; reducing the light power necessary to sustain and switch a soliton, by optical pumping.

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Taranenko, V.B., Weiss, C.O. (2002). Spatial Semiconductor-Resonator Solitons. In: Porsezian, K., Kuriakose, V.C. (eds) Optical Solitons. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 613. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36141-3_17

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