Cavity solitons in two-level lasers with dense amplifying medium
Ahufinger, Verònica (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Garcia-Ojalvo, Jordi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear)
Mompart Penina, Jordi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Torrent, M. C. (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear)
Corbalán, R. (Ramón)
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Física)
Vilaseca, Ramon (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear)
American Physical Society
Date: |
2003 |
Abstract: |
Local-field effects are known to induce bistability in dense optical media. We examine theoretically whether this property is preserved in broad-area cavities, and show that bistability between the homogeneous lasing and nonlasing states of the system persists provided a Fourier filtering technique is used to prevent off-axis emission. The resulting bistability gives rise to spatial light localization in the form of cavity solitons, which exhibit a particularly large degree of plasticity as a function of the characteristics of the addressing beam. This is the simplest laser able to sustain cavity solitons. |
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Anglès |
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Article ; Versió publicada |
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Physical review letters, Vol. 91, Issue 8 (August 2003) , p. 083901, ISSN 1079-7114 |
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.083901
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