https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2008-00042-2
Optical solitons in semiconductor quantum dot waveguides
1
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Nichtlineare Optik und Quantenelektronik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, 10623 Berlin, Germany
3
Mathematical Physics, Lund University, Box 118, 221 00 Lund, Sweden
Corresponding author: a carsten.weber@teorfys.lu.se
Received:
27
June
2007
Revised:
15
January
2008
Published online:
12
March
2008
A theory of self-induced transparency for a TM-mode propagating in a planar semiconductor waveguide sandwiched between two dielectric media is developed. A transition layer between the waveguide and one of the connected media is described using a model of a two-dimensional sheet of quantum dots. Explicit analytical expressions for the optical soliton in the presence of single-excitonic and biexcitonic transitions are obtained with realistic parameters which can be reached in current experiments.
PACS: 42.65.-k – Nonlinear optics / 42.65.Tg – Optical solitons; nonlinear guided waves / 78.67.Hc – Quantum dots
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
