Nonlinear Optics in Guided Geometries - Abstract

Skryabin, Dmitry

Polariton solitons in semiconductor microcavities

I will discuss bright and dark solitons and vortices of exciton-polaritons in semiconductor microcavities operating in strong coupling regime. Cavities with and without periodic and other forms of potentials will be considered. The reported structures are promising candidates for applications in all-optical signal processing because their excitation time and required pump powers are few orders of magnitude less than those of their weakly coupled counterparts.

Coauthors: O. Egorov, A. Gorbach, A. Yulin, R. Hartley, and F. Lederer