2009/01/27 by O. A. Egorov, D. V. Skryabin, Dmitry V. Skryabin +2 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research #Strong Light-Matter Interactions #cond-mat.other
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.102.153904
published as Phys. Rev. Lett., April 2009. Vol. 102, pp. 153904 · 4 pages
arxiv created 2009/01/27 · openalex publication_date 2009/04/14 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
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.