Waves, Solitons and Turbulence in Optical Systems - Abstract
Giudici, Massimo
In this presentation I will describe recent experimental results on the control and on the dynamics of temporal localized structures in a passively mode-locked VCSEL. Localized pulses have been proposed as information bits and the possibility of their manipulation opens interesting perspectives for information processing. I will show that a modulation of the pumping current leads to control the position and the speed of the localized pulses within the cavity. In addition to pin the pulses at well defined positions, which enables clocking the bit flow, the pulses can be driven to collide one against the other, thus unveiling the purely repulsive mutual interaction.