TY - JOUR
T1 - Dark Solitons in High Velocity Waveguide Polariton Fluids
AU - Walker, P. M.
AU - Tinkler, L.
AU - Royall, B.
AU - Skryabin, D. V.
AU - Farrer, I
AU - Ritchie, D. A.
AU - Skolnick, M. S.
AU - Krizhanovskii, D. N.
PY - 2017/8/31
Y1 - 2017/8/31
N2 - We study exciton-polariton nonlinear optical fluids in the high momentum waveguide regime for the first time. We demonstrate the formation of dark solitons with the expected dependence of width on fluid density for both main classes of soliton-forming fluid defects. The results are well described by numerical modeling of the fluid propagation. We deduce a continuous wave nonlinearity more than ten times that on picosecond time scales, arising due to interaction with the exciton reservoir.
AB - We study exciton-polariton nonlinear optical fluids in the high momentum waveguide regime for the first time. We demonstrate the formation of dark solitons with the expected dependence of width on fluid density for both main classes of soliton-forming fluid defects. The results are well described by numerical modeling of the fluid propagation. We deduce a continuous wave nonlinearity more than ten times that on picosecond time scales, arising due to interaction with the exciton reservoir.
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UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.097403
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.097403
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.097403
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85029690240
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 119
JO - Physical Review Letters
JF - Physical Review Letters
IS - 9
M1 - 097403
ER -