In our work, we report an experimental study on the generation and propagation of steerable bright spatial solitons in AlGaAs. The AlGaAs semiconductor exhibits a strong Kerr nonlinearity from bound electrons for photon energy just below half the band gap. Furthermore, we demonstrate that solitons can be obtained over a wide spectral range around 1.5 /spl mu/m. Finally, we show that the solitons' propagation direction can be controlled.


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    Title :

    Kerr spatial solitons at telecommunication wavelengths in AlGaAs


    Contributors:
    Coda, V. (author) / Maillotte, H. (author) / Chauvet, M. (author) / Salamo, G.J. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    92185 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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