Phase solitons and domain dynamics in an optically injected semiconductor laser
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2016-06-29 v1 Optics
Abstract
We analyze experimentally and theoretically the spatio-temporal dynamics of a highly multimode semiconductor laser with coherent optical injection. Due to the particular geometry of the device (a 1~m long ring cavity), the multimode dynamics can be resolved in real time and we observe stable chiral solitons and domain dynamics. The experiment is analyzed in the framework of a set of effective semiconductor Maxwell-Bloch equations. We analyze the stability of stationary solutions and simulate both the complete model and a reduced rate equation model. This allows us to predict domain shrinking and the stability of only one chiral charge that we ascribe to the finite active medium response time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1603.01400,
title = {Phase solitons and domain dynamics in an optically injected semiconductor laser},
author = {F. Gustave and L. Columbo and G. Tissoni and M. Brambilla and F. Prati and S. Barland},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01400},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
10 pages, 12 figures