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Published on: December 15, 2021
Stability properties of multiwavelength, incoherent, dissipative spatial solitons
E A Ultanir1, G I Stegeman, C H Lange
1School of Optics/Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA. eultanir@mail.ucf.edu
Abstract:
We have investigated the interaction between two dissipative spatial solitons of different frequencies in periodically patterned semiconductor optical amplifiers. The experimental results are in good agreement with the theory. Simulations suggest that multiwavelength interactions do not produce stable bound solitons unless the system's modeling equations are completely symmetric.
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