Bright cavity polariton solitons

O A Egorov, Dmitry V Skryabin, A V Yulin, F Lederer

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Abstract

The lower branch of the dispersion relation of exciton polaritons in semiconductor microcavities, operating in the strong-coupling regime, contains sections of both positive and negative curvature along one spatial direction. We show that this leads to the existence of stable one-dimensional bright microcavity solitons supported by the repulsive polariton nonlinearity. To achieve localization along the second transverse direction we propose to create a special soliton waveguide by changing the cavity detuning and hence the boundary of the soliton existence in such a way that the solitons are allowed only within the stripe of the desired width.
Original languageEnglish
Article number153904
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume102
Issue number15
Early online date13 Apr 2009
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 17 Apr 2009

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