Dissipative solitons in the coupled dynamics of light and cold atoms

Tesio, Enrico and Robb, Gordon and Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2013) Dissipative solitons in the coupled dynamics of light and cold atoms. Optics Express, 21 (22). pp. 26144-26149. ISSN 1094-4087 (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.21.026144)

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Abstract

We investigate the coupled dynamics of light and cold atoms in a unidirectional ring cavity, in the regime of low saturation and linear single-atom response. As the dispersive opto-mechanical coupling between light and the motional degrees of freedom of the atoms makes the dynamics nonlinear, we find that localized, nonlinearity-sustained and bistable structures can be encoded in the atomic density by means of appropriate control beams