| Issue |
EPL
Volume 83, Number 1, July 2008
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 14002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/83/14002 | |
| Published online | 12 June 2008 | |
Slow optical solitons via intersubband transitions in a semiconductor quantum well
1
Institute of Photonics Technologies, National Tsing-Hua University - Hsinchu 300, Taiwan
2
Department of Physics, Southeast University - Nanjing 210096, China
Corresponding author: wxyang@mx.nthu.edu.tw
Received:
12
March
2008
Accepted:
14
May
2008
We show the formation of bright and dark slow optical solitons based on intersubband transitions in a semiconductor quantum well (SQW). Using the coupled Schrödinger-Maxwell approach, we provide both analytical and numerical results. Such a nonlinear optical process may be used for the control technology of optical delay lines and optical buffers in the SQW solid-state system. With appropriate parameters, we also show the generation of a large cross-phase modulation (XPM). Since the intersubband energy level can be easily tuned by an external bias voltage, the present investigation may open possibilities for electrically controlled phase modulators in solid systems.
PACS: 42.50.Gy – Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light; electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption / 42.65.Tg – Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves / 78.67.De – Quantum wells
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