Optical switching waves in III-V semiconductor microresonators

Ganne, I.; Šlekys, G.; Sagnes, Isabelle; Kuszelewicz, R.

doi:10.1103/physrevb.63.075318

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“…From here, the two SW locations τ SW follow a location within the pulse-drive envelope F (τ ) = F m , which previous theoretical works on SW stability have termed as the 'Maxwell Point' 33,38 , until at ζ 0 ≈ 7 where there exists no F (τ ) > F m causing the SWs to meet each other and annihilate, failing to reach their theoretical maximum detuning at ζ 0 = F 0 = 10. The stability of the SW fronts within the pulse envelope after formation is due to the effective 'outward pressure' manifesting on ψ H .…”

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“…As such, they have been proposed as a superior alternative to bright DS for applications which require the generation of strong comb lines near to the pump center, and have been demonstrated as a source for massively parallel telecommunications 35 . Switching waves have been classed more generally as 'domain walls' connecting two stable homogeneous states in driven dissipative systems, seen in χ (2) optical parametric oscillators 36,37 , semiconductor lasers 38 , birefringent optical fibers 39,40 , and more widely in hydrodynamic systems and more 41 .…”

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Zero-dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

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Lihachev²,

Weng³

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Zero-dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Anderson¹,

Lihachev²,

Weng³

et al. 2020

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“…These measurements highlight that commuting a small area within the pump spot induces a switch of the whole excited region. This necessarily occurs through the propagation of a switching front across the sample [9]. In our case, it propagates over distances of several tens of microns.…”

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“…When part of a spatially extended bistable system is switched from one stable state to the other, a front is formed between spatial regions in different states. If this front is locked, spatial solitons can be observed [7,8], otherwise the front propagates along the surface until the whole sample has switched state [9]. Recently optical bistability of microcavity polaritons has been theoretically proposed to generate propagation of switching fronts which can be used for all optical computation [10].…”

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Optical Bistability in a GaAs-Based Polariton Diode

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We report on a new type of optical nonlinearity in a polariton p-i-n microcavity. Abrupt switching between the strong and weak coupling regime is induced by controlling the electric field within the cavity. As a consequence bistable cycles are observed for low optical powers (2-3 orders of magnitude less than for Kerr induced bistability). Signatures of switching fronts propagating through the whole 300 x 300 µm 2 mesa surface are evidenced.PACS numbers: 71.36.+c, 42.65.Pc, 73.50.Pz, 78.55.Cr After its first observation in a Fabry Perot cavity containing Na vapor [1], optical bistability has been widely explored in solid state systems for its possible application in all optical circuits and optical computing [2]. A common approach is the use of a microcavity in which the resonance frequency depends on the stored optical energy: optical χ (3) nonlinearities, of electronic or thermal origin, have been used to obtain bistability in 1-dimensional [3,4] and 2 dimensional [5,6] photonic devices, with switching incident powers around 1 kW/cm 2 . When part of a spatially extended bistable system is switched from one stable state to the other, a front is formed between spatial regions in different states. If this front is locked, spatial solitons can be observed [7,8], otherwise the front propagates along the surface until the whole sample has switched state [9]. Recently optical bistability of microcavity polaritons has been theoretically proposed to generate propagation of switching fronts which can be used for all optical computation [10]. Polaritons are mixed exciton-photon quasiparticles resulting from the strong coupling regime of excitons with a resonant cavity mode [11]. Polaritonpolariton scattering gives rise to giant χ (3) -type nonlinearities [12,13] which have been recently shown to generate optical bistability [14]; indications of spatial solitons were also reported [15]. Another approach for optical bistability is to use the switch from strong to weak coupling regime due to exciton bleaching at high pumping power [16,17]. This method has been theoretically proposed in 1996 [18], and some experimental indication has been reported in 2004 [19]. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate low-power optical bistability based on a new non-linear mechanism. Switching between strong and weak coupling regime is induced controlling the internal electric field of a p-i-n microcavity. Well defined hysteresis cycles are observed both scanning the external bias or the optical power. * now at CNISM UDR Pavia and Dipartimento di Elettronica, Università degli studi di Pavia, via Ferrata 1, 27100 Pavia, Italy A model including the changes of optical and electronic properties between the strong and weak coupling regime is developed and gives a good overall description of the observed cycles. Finally we show that a local excitation can produce commutation of the whole mesa. The sample (see Fig. 1 a)) is described in details in ref. [20]. Grown on an n-doped GaAs substrate, an undoped GaAs cavity containing 3 In 0.05 Ga 0....

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“…week ending 4 JULY 2008 analogous to the optical switching waves observed in bistable semiconductor microresonators with fast electronic nonlinearity [47]. The average signal propagation speed depends strongly on the intensity of the driving cw field.…”

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Optical Circuits Based on Polariton Neurons in Semiconductor Microcavities

2008

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By exploiting the polarization multistability of polaritons, we show that polarized signals can be conducted in the plane of a semiconductor microcavity along controlled channels or "neurons." Furthermore, because of the interaction of polaritons with opposite spins it is possible to realize binary logic gates operating on the polarization degree of freedom. Multiple gates can be integrated together to form an optical circuit contained in a single semiconductor microcavity.

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Optical switching waves in III-V semiconductor microresonators

Cited by 11 publications

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Zero-dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Zero-dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Optical Bistability in a GaAs-Based Polariton Diode

Optical Circuits Based on Polariton Neurons in Semiconductor Microcavities

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