Spatial soliton laser: Localized structures in a laser with a saturable absorber in a self-imaging resonator
- 1 August 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 56 (2) , 1582-1591
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.56.1582
Abstract
We demonstrate theoretically and experimentally the manipulation of spatial localized structures (spatial solitons) of a laser with saturable absorber in a self-imaging resonator. We show the on-off bistability of the solitons, their movement by phase gradient forces, the parameters of their existence, the limits of their stability, and periodic soliton nucleation and dynamics.Keywords
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