Bright Cavity Polariton Solitons

被引：111

作者：

Egorov, O. A. ^{[1
]}

Skryabin, D. V. ^{[2
]}

Yulin, A. V. ^{[2
]}

Lederer, F. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Jena, Inst Condensed Matter Theory & Solid State Opt, D-07743 Jena, Germany

[2] Univ Bath, Dept Phys, Ctr Photon & Photon Mat, Bath BA2 7AY, Avon, England

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2009年 / 102卷 / 15期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCAVITIES; OPTICAL BISTABILITY; DYNAMICS; PIXELS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.153904

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

The lower branch of the dispersion relation of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, operating in the strong-coupling regime, contains sections of both positive and negative curvature along one spatial direction. We show that this leads to the existence of stable one-dimensional bright microcavity solitons supported by the repulsive polariton nonlinearity. To achieve localization along the second transverse direction we propose to create a special soliton waveguide by changing the cavity detuning and hence the boundary of the soliton existence in such a way that the solitons are allowed only within the stripe of the desired width.

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