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9 March 2024 Nozaki-Bekki optical solitons
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Abstract
Optical frequency combs (OFCs) stand as the cornerstone of modern optics, with applications ranging from fundamental science to sensing and spectroscopy. Generation of short optical soliton pulses in passive media such as optical fibers and microresonators has been an established technique for stable OFC formation with a broad optical spectrum – however these platforms are driven by an external optical signal and often rely on additional bulky elements that increase the complexity of the system. Here, we aim to overcome these difficulties by direct OFC generation in mid-infrared semiconductor lasers, such as quantum and interband cascade lasers. After a general introduction to such combs and their nonlinear dynamics, the soliton concept from microresonator Kerr combs will be generalized to active media that are electrically-driven and a new type of solitons in free-running semiconductor laser integrated on a chip will be demonstrated.
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Benedikt Schwarz, Nikola Opacak, Dmitry Kazakov, Lorenzo L. Columbo, Maximillian Beiser, Theodore P. Letsou, Florian Pilat, Massimo Brambilla, Franco Prati, Marco Piccardo, and Federico Capasso "Nozaki-Bekki optical solitons", Proc. SPIE PC12895, Quantum Sensing and Nano Electronics and Photonics XX, PC128950M (9 March 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3003819
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KEYWORDS
Optical solitons

Microresonators

Quantum cascade lasers

Semiconductor lasers

Solitons

Quantum optics applications

Quantum sensing

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