Excitable solitons in a semiconductor laser with a saturable absorber

Margherita Turconi, Franco Prati, Stéphane Barland, and Giovanna Tissoni
Phys. Rev. A 92, 053855 – Published 23 November 2015

Abstract

Self-pulsing cavity solitons may exist in a semiconductor laser with an intracavity saturable absorber. They show locally the passive Q-switching behavior that is typical of lasers with saturable absorbers in the plane-wave approximation. Here we show that excitable cavity solitons are also possible in a suitable parameter range and characterize their excitable dynamics and properties.

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  • Received 6 August 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.053855

©2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Margherita Turconi1,*, Franco Prati2,3, Stéphane Barland1, and Giovanna Tissoni1

  • 1Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Institut Non Linéaire de Nice, CNRS UMR 7335, 1361 Route des Lucioles, F-06560 Valbonne, France
  • 2Dipartimento di Scienza e Alta Tecnologia, Università dell'Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy
  • 3CNISM, Research Unit of Como, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy

  • *Present address: Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur-Laboratoire ARTEMIS, Bvd. de l'Observatoire CS 34229, F-06304 Nice, France.

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Vol. 92, Iss. 5 — November 2015

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