Engineering optical soliton bistability in colloidal media

Soliton interactions and transformations in colloidal media

Michał Matuszewski, Wieslaw Krolikowski, and Yuri S. Kivshar Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Laser Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Received 29 September 2008; revised manuscript received 17 November 2008; publ...

Optical Bistability in Active Devices

1 . I n t r o d u c t i o n R e c e n t p r o g r e s s i n t h e s t u d y o f b o t h a b s o r p t i v e a n d d i s p e r s i v e b i s t a b i l i t y i n l a s e r d i o d e s (LDs) i s r e v i e w e d / I / . T h e m o s t d i s t i n c t i v e f e a t u r e o f b i s t a b l e LDs i s t h a t t h e y h a v e o p t i c a l g a i n . O p t i c a l g a i n r e s u l t s i n a d v a n t a g...

Optical Bistability and its Computation

Soliton squeezing in optical fibers

The use of squeezed light can overcome the standard quantum limit in phase sensitive optical measurements. This thesis is a theoretical and experimental investigation of soliton squeezing at 1.55gm. Theoretically, the effects of the continuum on squeezing have been investigated. Experimentally, modelocked fiber laser sources at 1.55gm have been developed for both schemes and their noise propert...

Rotating optical soliton clusters.

We introduce the concept of soliton clusters--multisoliton bound states in a homogeneous bulk optical medium--and reveal a key physical mechanism for their stabilization associated with a staircaselike phase distribution that induces a net angular momentum and leads to cluster rotation. The ringlike soliton clusters provide a nontrivial generalization of the concepts of two-soliton spiraling, o...