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Cavity soliton laser based on VCSEL with saturable absorber

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We study theoretically a broad-area vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) with a saturable absorber. We show numerically the presence of cavity solitons in the system: they exist as solitary structures formed through a modulationally unstable homogeneous lasing state that coexists with a background with zero intensity. Such a peculiar scenario endows the solitons with unique properties compared to cavity solitons in most previously studied optical systems. In particular, these solitons do not as such rely on a proper phase of the addressing pulses to be either created or deleted. We show that exciting and deleting the solitons depend crucially on whether a threshold in the soliton peak has been reached.

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  1. INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica e Matematica, Università dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100, Como, Italy

    M. Bache, F. Prati, G. Tissoni, R. Kheradmand & L.A. Lugiato

  2. Research Institute for Applied Physics and Astronomy, University of Tabriz, 51665-163, Tabriz, Iran

    R. Kheradmand

  3. Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia Scientific Center of Applied Research, JINR, Dubna, Russia

    I. Protsenko

  4. INFM, Dipartimento di Fisica Interateneo, Università e Politecnico di Bari, Via Orabona 4, 70126, Bari, Italy

    M. Brambilla

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Bache, M., Prati, F., Tissoni, G. et al. Cavity soliton laser based on VCSEL with saturable absorber. Appl. Phys. B 81, 913–920 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-005-1997-9

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