Bright solitons and light bullets in semiconductor waveguides

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For the first time it is shown that bright temporal solitons as well as spatiotemporal solitary waves (light bullets) may exist in semiconductor waveguides provided that the large normal material dispersion is overcompensated for by the dispersion of a properly tailored waveguide. Soliton switching in a nonlinear directional coupler without pulse break-up is predicted.

Inspec keywords: optical couplers; optical dispersion; optical switches; optical waveguide theory; optical solitons

Other keywords: tailored waveguide; light bullets; nonlinear directional coupler; bright temporal solitons; spatiotemporal solitary waves; soliton switching; anti-resonant reflecting optical waveguides; semiconductor waveguides; ARROW modes

Subjects: Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides and couplers; Waveguide and cavity theory; Nonlinear optics and devices; Optical waveguides

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