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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 2002),
  • paper CTuT4

Stable Spatial Solitons in Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

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Abstract

Self-trapped beams or spatial solitons may be considered promising candidates for all-optical processing, steering and routing schemes. Thus the search for these localized nonlinear objects in materials with reasonable response times (ps) and low power levels (mW) is still a subject of active research. Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) are potential candidates to meet these requirements. A decade ago there have been reports of self-trapped beams, interpreted as spatial solitons, in SOA’s at 100 mW power levels over distances of a few diffraction lengths.1 But these solitons are unstable because of an unstable background.

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