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Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal

  • Franco Prati , Massimo Brambilla , Marco Piccardo , Lorenzo Luigi Columbo , Carlo Silvestri , Mariangela Gioannini , Alessandra Gatti , Luigi A. Lugiato und Federico Capasso
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Frontiers in Optics and Photonics
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Frontiers in Optics and Photonics

Abstract

Nonlinear interactions in many physical systems lead to symmetry breaking phenomena in which an initial spatially homogeneous stationary solution becomes modulated. Modulation instabilities have been widely studied since the 1960s in different branches of nonlinear physics. In optics, they may result in the formation of optical solitons, localized structures that maintain their shape as they propagate, which have been investigated in systems ranging from optical fibres to passive microresonators. Recently, a generalized version of the Lugiato- Lefever equation predicted their existence in ring quantum cascade lasers with an external driving field, a configuration that enables the bistability mechanism at the basis of the formation of optical solitons. Here, we consider this driven emitter and extensively study the structures emerging therein. The most promising regimes for localized structure formation are assessed by means of a linear stability analysis of the homogeneous stationary solution (or continuous-wave solution). In particular, we show the existence of phase solitons - chiral structures excited by phase jumps in the cavity - and cavity solitons. The latter can be deterministically excited by means of writing pulses and manipulated by the application of intensity gradients, making them promising as frequency combs (in the spectral domain) or reconfigurable bit sequences that can encode information inside the ring cavity.

Abstract

Nonlinear interactions in many physical systems lead to symmetry breaking phenomena in which an initial spatially homogeneous stationary solution becomes modulated. Modulation instabilities have been widely studied since the 1960s in different branches of nonlinear physics. In optics, they may result in the formation of optical solitons, localized structures that maintain their shape as they propagate, which have been investigated in systems ranging from optical fibres to passive microresonators. Recently, a generalized version of the Lugiato- Lefever equation predicted their existence in ring quantum cascade lasers with an external driving field, a configuration that enables the bistability mechanism at the basis of the formation of optical solitons. Here, we consider this driven emitter and extensively study the structures emerging therein. The most promising regimes for localized structure formation are assessed by means of a linear stability analysis of the homogeneous stationary solution (or continuous-wave solution). In particular, we show the existence of phase solitons - chiral structures excited by phase jumps in the cavity - and cavity solitons. The latter can be deterministically excited by means of writing pulses and manipulated by the application of intensity gradients, making them promising as frequency combs (in the spectral domain) or reconfigurable bit sequences that can encode information inside the ring cavity.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Preface v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Part I: Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics
  5. Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties 3
  6. Ultralow threshold blue quantum dot lasers: what’s the true recipe for success? 23
  7. Waiting for Act 2: what lies beyond organic lightemitting diode (OLED) displays for organic electronics? 31
  8. Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective 41
  9. On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage 75
  10. High-Q nanophotonics: sculpting wavefronts with slow light 83
  11. Thermoelectric graphene photodetectors with sub-nanosecond response times at terahertz frequencies 89
  12. High-performance integrated graphene electro-optic modulator at cryogenic temperature 99
  13. Asymmetric photoelectric effect: Auger-assisted hot hole photocurrents in transition metal dichalcogenides 105
  14. Seeing the light in energy use 115
  15. Part II: Lasers, Active optical devices and Spectroscopy
  16. A high-repetition rate attosecond light source for time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy 119
  17. Fast laser speckle suppression with an intracavity diffuser 131
  18. Active optics with silk 139
  19. Nanolaser arrays: toward application-driven dense integration 151
  20. Two-dimensional spectroscopy on a THz quantum cascade structure 173
  21. Homogeneous quantum cascade lasers operating as terahertz frequency combs over their entire operational regime 183
  22. Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs 189
  23. Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal 197
  24. Part III: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
  25. Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum 213
  26. Perspective on using multiple orbital-angularmomentum beams for enhanced capacity in freespace optical communication links 229
  27. Part IV: Biomedical Photonics
  28. A fiber optic–nanophotonic approach to the detection of antibodies and viral particles of COVID-19 241
  29. Plasmonic control of drug release efficiency in agarose gel loaded with gold nanoparticle assemblies 253
  30. Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective 265
  31. Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing 301
  32. Part V: Fundamentals of Optics
  33. A Tutorial on the Classical Theories of Electromagnetic Scattering and Diffraction 323
  34. Reflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: a general theory 351
  35. Part VI: Optimization Methods
  36. Multiobjective and categorical global optimization of photonic structures based on ResNet generative neural networks 371
  37. Machine learning–assisted global optimization of photonic devices 381
  38. Artificial neural networks for inverse design of resonant nanophotonic components with oscillatory loss landscapes 395
  39. Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond 403
  40. Part VII: Topological Photonics
  41. Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point 415
  42. Topological photonics: Where do we go from here? 437
  43. Topological nanophotonics for photoluminescence control 447
  44. Anomalous Anderson localization behavior in gain-loss balanced non-Hermitian systems 455
  45. Part VIII: Quantum Computing, Quantum Optics, and QED
  46. Quantum computing and simulation 467
  47. NIST-certified secure key generation via deep learning of physical unclonable functions in silica aerogels 471
  48. Thomas–Reiche–Kuhn (TRK) sum rule for interacting photons 479
  49. Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems 491
  50. Generation and dynamics of entangled fermion–photon–phonon states in nanocavities 505
  51. Polaritonic Tamm states induced by cavity photons 527
  52. Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry 537
  53. Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling 551
  54. Part IX: Plasmonics and Polaritonics
  55. Shrinking the surface plasmon 561
  56. Polariton panorama 565
  57. Scattering of a single plasmon polariton by multiple atoms for in-plane control of light 595
  58. A metasurface-based diamond frequency converter using plasmonic nanogap resonators 605
  59. Selective excitation of individual nanoantennas by pure spectral phase control in the ultrafast coherent regime 613
  60. Semiconductor quantum plasmons for high frequency thermal emission 623
  61. Origin of dispersive line shapes in plasmon-enhanced stimulated Raman scattering microscopy 633
  62. Epitaxial aluminum plasmonics covering full visible spectrum 643
  63. Part X: Metaoptics
  64. Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more 657
  65. The road to atomically thin metasurface optics 661
  66. Active nonlocal metasurfaces 673
  67. Giant midinfrared nonlinearity based on multiple quantum well polaritonic metasurfaces 685
  68. Near-field plates and the near zone of metasurfaces 697
  69. High-efficiency metadevices for bifunctional generations of vectorial optical fields 703
  70. Printing polarization and phase at the optical diffraction limit: near- and far-field optical encryption 715
  71. Optical response of jammed rectangular nanostructures 723
  72. Dynamic phase-change metafilm absorber for strong designer modulation of visible light 731
  73. Arbitrary polarization conversion for pure vortex generation with a single metasurface 745
  74. Enhanced harmonic generation in gases using an all-dielectric metasurface 751
  75. Monolithic metasurface spatial differentiator enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions 759
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110710687-018

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Preface v
  3. Contents vii
  4. Part I: Optoelectronics and Integrated Photonics
  5. Disorder effects in nitride semiconductors: impact on fundamental and device properties 3
  6. Ultralow threshold blue quantum dot lasers: what’s the true recipe for success? 23
  7. Waiting for Act 2: what lies beyond organic lightemitting diode (OLED) displays for organic electronics? 31
  8. Waveguide combiners for mixed reality headsets: a nanophotonics design perspective 41
  9. On-chip broadband nonreciprocal light storage 75
  10. High-Q nanophotonics: sculpting wavefronts with slow light 83
  11. Thermoelectric graphene photodetectors with sub-nanosecond response times at terahertz frequencies 89
  12. High-performance integrated graphene electro-optic modulator at cryogenic temperature 99
  13. Asymmetric photoelectric effect: Auger-assisted hot hole photocurrents in transition metal dichalcogenides 105
  14. Seeing the light in energy use 115
  15. Part II: Lasers, Active optical devices and Spectroscopy
  16. A high-repetition rate attosecond light source for time-resolved coincidence spectroscopy 119
  17. Fast laser speckle suppression with an intracavity diffuser 131
  18. Active optics with silk 139
  19. Nanolaser arrays: toward application-driven dense integration 151
  20. Two-dimensional spectroscopy on a THz quantum cascade structure 173
  21. Homogeneous quantum cascade lasers operating as terahertz frequency combs over their entire operational regime 183
  22. Toward new frontiers for terahertz quantum cascade laser frequency combs 189
  23. Soliton dynamics of ring quantum cascade lasers with injected signal 197
  24. Part III: Fiber Optics and Optical Communications
  25. Propagation stability in optical fibers: role of path memory and angular momentum 213
  26. Perspective on using multiple orbital-angularmomentum beams for enhanced capacity in freespace optical communication links 229
  27. Part IV: Biomedical Photonics
  28. A fiber optic–nanophotonic approach to the detection of antibodies and viral particles of COVID-19 241
  29. Plasmonic control of drug release efficiency in agarose gel loaded with gold nanoparticle assemblies 253
  30. Metasurfaces for biomedical applications: imaging and sensing from a nanophotonics perspective 265
  31. Hyperbolic dispersion metasurfaces for molecular biosensing 301
  32. Part V: Fundamentals of Optics
  33. A Tutorial on the Classical Theories of Electromagnetic Scattering and Diffraction 323
  34. Reflectionless excitation of arbitrary photonic structures: a general theory 351
  35. Part VI: Optimization Methods
  36. Multiobjective and categorical global optimization of photonic structures based on ResNet generative neural networks 371
  37. Machine learning–assisted global optimization of photonic devices 381
  38. Artificial neural networks for inverse design of resonant nanophotonic components with oscillatory loss landscapes 395
  39. Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond 403
  40. Part VII: Topological Photonics
  41. Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point 415
  42. Topological photonics: Where do we go from here? 437
  43. Topological nanophotonics for photoluminescence control 447
  44. Anomalous Anderson localization behavior in gain-loss balanced non-Hermitian systems 455
  45. Part VIII: Quantum Computing, Quantum Optics, and QED
  46. Quantum computing and simulation 467
  47. NIST-certified secure key generation via deep learning of physical unclonable functions in silica aerogels 471
  48. Thomas–Reiche–Kuhn (TRK) sum rule for interacting photons 479
  49. Macroscopic QED for quantum nanophotonics: emitter-centered modes as a minimal basis for multiemitter problems 491
  50. Generation and dynamics of entangled fermion–photon–phonon states in nanocavities 505
  51. Polaritonic Tamm states induced by cavity photons 527
  52. Recent progress in engineering the Casimir effect – applications to nanophotonics, nanomechanics, and chemistry 537
  53. Enhancement of rotational vacuum friction by surface photon tunneling 551
  54. Part IX: Plasmonics and Polaritonics
  55. Shrinking the surface plasmon 561
  56. Polariton panorama 565
  57. Scattering of a single plasmon polariton by multiple atoms for in-plane control of light 595
  58. A metasurface-based diamond frequency converter using plasmonic nanogap resonators 605
  59. Selective excitation of individual nanoantennas by pure spectral phase control in the ultrafast coherent regime 613
  60. Semiconductor quantum plasmons for high frequency thermal emission 623
  61. Origin of dispersive line shapes in plasmon-enhanced stimulated Raman scattering microscopy 633
  62. Epitaxial aluminum plasmonics covering full visible spectrum 643
  63. Part X: Metaoptics
  64. Metamaterials with high degrees of freedom: space, time, and more 657
  65. The road to atomically thin metasurface optics 661
  66. Active nonlocal metasurfaces 673
  67. Giant midinfrared nonlinearity based on multiple quantum well polaritonic metasurfaces 685
  68. Near-field plates and the near zone of metasurfaces 697
  69. High-efficiency metadevices for bifunctional generations of vectorial optical fields 703
  70. Printing polarization and phase at the optical diffraction limit: near- and far-field optical encryption 715
  71. Optical response of jammed rectangular nanostructures 723
  72. Dynamic phase-change metafilm absorber for strong designer modulation of visible light 731
  73. Arbitrary polarization conversion for pure vortex generation with a single metasurface 745
  74. Enhanced harmonic generation in gases using an all-dielectric metasurface 751
  75. Monolithic metasurface spatial differentiator enabled by asymmetric photonic spin-orbit interactions 759
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