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Chapter
Nonlinear Optics and Saturation Behavior of Quantum Dot Samples Under Continuous Wave Driving
The nonlinear optical response of self-assembled quantum dots (QD) is relevant to the application of QD-based devices in nonlinear optics, all-optical switching, slow light, and self-organization. Theoretical ...
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Chapter
Cavity Solitons in Semiconductor Devices
Cavity solitons represent a class of dissipative solitons which are generated inside an optical resonator. They have attracted considerable interest in the recent years due to their possible application to opt...
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Article
Cavity soliton laser based on VCSEL with saturable absorber
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 structure...
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Article
Model for optical pattern and cavity soliton formation in a microresonator with self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots
We have developed a model that describes the optical response of a semiconductor quantum dot medium in a cavity in order to investigate pattern and cavity solitons formation. This model, beyond the inclusion o...
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Chapter
Cavity Spatial Solitons in Semiconductor Microcavities
In the framework of Transverse Nonlinear Optics and Optical Pattern Formation, we study the formation of cavity solitons (CS) in semiconductor microcavities. We adopt a microscopic model that describes the fie...
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Chapter
Laser-Based Optical Associative Memories
A new approach to architecture based on the use of a laser as a nonlinear discriminator for all-optical, auto- and hetero-associative memories is presented. The laser operates in a regime of spatial multistabi...
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Chapter
Localized Structures In Nonlinear Optical Systems And Materials
Diffractive effects in passive nonlinear optical resonators can lead to pattern forming bifurcations with subcritical character. When the pattern (in our case, a regular hexagonal lattice of inte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Instabilities and pattern formation in a Laser with Injected Signal
In the last years, diffractive effects coupled to medium nonlinearity in nonlinear optical systems were increasingly investigated as the main means of pattern formation and spatio-temporal dynamics in optics [1].
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Chapter
Laser-Based Optical Associative Memories
A new approach to architecture based on the use of a laser as a nonlinear discriminator for all-optical, auto- and hetero-associative memories is presented. The laser operates in a regime of spatial multistabi...
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Article
Generation of nonclassical states by nonlinear optical systems
We review the main results obtained recently by our group in the field of quantum noise reduction in nonlinear optical systems. We illustrate the possibility of obtaining significant effects in degenerate para...
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Chapter
Quantum Noise Reduction and Instabilities in Nondegenerate Four-Wave-Mixing
Four-wave-mixing (FWM) is one of the basic mechanisms in nonlinear optics. We consider the interaction of a pump field of frequency ω l and two signal fields (or more precisely, a signal and an id...