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    Efficient Current Injection Into Single Quantum Dots Through Oxide-Confined p-n-Diodes
    (New York, NY : IEEE, 2016) Kantner, Markus; Bandelow, Uwe; Koprucki, Thomas; Schulze, Jan-Hindrik; Strittmatter, Andre; Wunsche, Hans-Jurgen
    Current injection into single quantum dots embedded in vertical p-n-diodes featuring oxide apertures is analyzed in the low-injection regime suitable for single-photon emitters. The experimental and theoretical evidence is found for a rapid lateral spreading of the carriers after passing the oxide aperture in the conventional p-i-n-design. By an alternative design employing p-doping up to the oxide aperture, the current spreading can be suppressed resulting in an enhanced current confinement and increased injection efficiencies, both, in the continuous wave and under pulsed excitation.
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    Cancellation of Raman self-frequency shift for compression of optical pulses
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2017) Pickartz, Sabrina; Brée, Carsten; Bandelow, Uwe; Amiranashvili, Shalva
    We study to which extent a fiber soliton can be manipulated by a specially chosen continuous pump wave. A group velocity matched pump scatters at the soliton, which is compressed due to the energy/momentum transfer. As the pump scattering is very sensitive to the velocity matching condition, soliton compression is quickly destroyed by the soliton self-frequency shift (SSFS). This is especially true for ultrashort pulses: SSFS inevitably impairs the degree of compression. We demonstrate numerically that soliton enhancement can be restored to some extent and the compressed soliton can be stabilized, provided that SSFS is canceled by a second pump wave. Still the available compression degree is considerably smaller than that in the Raman-free nonlinear fibers.
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    Sasa-Satsuma hierarchy of integrable evolution equations
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Bandelow, Uwe; Ankiewicz, Adrian; Amiranashvili, Shalva; Pickartz, Sabrina; Akhmediev, Nail
    We present the infinite hierarchy of Sasa-Satsuma evolution equations. The corresponding Lax pairs are given, thus proving its integrability. The lowest order member of this hierarchy is the nonlinear Schrödinger equation, while the next one is the Sasa-Satsuma equation that includes third-order terms. Up to sixthorder terms of the hierarchy are given in explicit form, while the provided recurrence relation allows one to explicitly write all higher-order terms. The whole hierarchy can be combined into a single general equation. Each term in this equation contains a real independent coefficient that provides the possibility of adapting the equation to practical needs. A few examples of exact solutions of this general equation with an infinite number of terms are also given explicitly.
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    Multi-dimensional modeling and simulation of semiconductor nanophotonic devices
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Kantner, Markus; Höhne, Theresa; Koprucki, Thomas; Burger, Sven; Wünsche, Hans-Jürgen; Schmidt, Frank; Mielke, Alexander; Bandelow, Uwe
    Self-consistent modeling and multi-dimensional simulation of semiconductor nanophotonic devices is an important tool in the development of future integrated light sources and quantum devices. Simulations can guide important technological decisions by revealing performance bottlenecks in new device concepts, contribute to their understanding and help to theoretically explore their optimization potential. The efficient implementation of multi-dimensional numerical simulations for computer-aided design tasks requires sophisticated numerical methods and modeling techniques. We review recent advances in device-scale modeling of quantum dot based single-photon sources and laser diodes by self-consistently coupling the optical Maxwell equations with semiclassical carrier transport models using semi-classical and fully quantum mechanical descriptions of the optically active region, respectively. For the simulation of realistic devices with complex, multi-dimensional geometries, we have developed a novel hp-adaptive finite element approach for the optical Maxwell equations, using mixed meshes adapted to the multi-scale properties of the photonic structures. For electrically driven devices, we introduced novel discretization and parameter-embedding techniques to solve the drift-diffusion system for strongly degenerate semiconductors at cryogenic temperature. Our methodical advances are demonstrated on various applications, including vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, grating couplers and single-photon sources.
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    Infinite hierarchy of nonlinear Schrödinger equations and Infinite hierarchy of nonlinear Schrödinger equations and
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Ankiewicz, Adrian; Kedziora, David Jacob; Chowdury, Amdad; Bandelow, Uwe; Nail Akhmediev, Nail
    We study the infinite integrable nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) hierarchy beyond the Lakshmanan-Porsezian-Daniel equation which is a particular (fourth-order) case of the hierarchy. In particular, we present the generalized Lax pair and generalized soliton solutions, plane wave solutions, AB breathers, Kuznetsov-Ma breathers, periodic solutions and rogue wave solutions for this infinite order hierarchy. We find that even order equations in the set affect phase and stretching factors in the solutions, while odd order equations affect the velocities. Hence odd order equation solutions can be real functions, while even order equation solutions are always complex.
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    Stabilization of optical pulse transmission by exploiting fiber nonlinearities
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Bandelow, Uwe; Amiranashvili, Shalva; Pickartz, Sabrina
    We prove theoretically, that the evolution of optical solitons can be dramatically influenced in the course of nonlinear interaction with much smaller group velocity matched pulses. Even weak pump pulses can be used to control the solitons, e.g., to compensate their degradation caused by Raman-scattering.
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    Generalized integrable evolution equations with an infinite number of free parameters
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Akhmediev, Nail; Ankiewicz, Adrian; Amiranashvili, Shalva; Bandelow, Uwe
    Evolution equations such as the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE) can be extended to include an infinite number of free parameters. The extensions are not unique. We give two examples that contain the NLSE as the lowest-order PDE of each set. Such representations provide the advantage of modelling a larger variety of physical problems due to the presence of an infinite number of higher-order terms in this equation with an infinite number of arbitrary parameters. An example of a rogue wave solution for one of these cases is presented, demonstrating the power of the technique.
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    Asymptotically stable compensation of soliton self-frequency shift
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2016) Pickartz, Sabrina; Bandelow, Uwe; Amiranashvili, Shalva
    We report the cancellation of the soliton self-frequency shift in nonlinear optical fibers. A soliton which interacts with a group velocity matched low intensity dispersive pump pulse, experiences a continuous blue-shift in frequency, which counteracts the soliton selffrequency shift due to Raman scattering. The soliton self-frequency shift can be fully compensated by a suitably prepared dispersive wave. We quantify this kind of soliton-dispersive wave interaction by an adiabatic approach and demonstrate that the compensation is stable in agreement with numerical simulations.
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    Generalized Sasa-Satsuma equation: Densities approach to new infinite hierarchy of integrable evolution equations
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2018) Ankiewicz, Adrian; Bandelow, Uwe; Akhmediev, Nail
    We derive the new infinite Sasa-Satsuma hierarchy of evolution equations using an invariant densities approach. Being significantly simpler than the Lax-pair technique, this approach does not involve ponderous 3 x3 matrices. Moreover, it allows us to explicitly obtain operators of many orders involved in the time evolution of the Sasa-Satsuma hierarchy functionals. All these operators are parts of a generalized Sasa-Satsuma equation of infinitely high order. They enter this equation with independent arbitrary real coefficients that govern the evolution pattern of this multi-parameter dynamical system.
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    Time-dependent simulation of thermal lensing in high-power broad-area semiconductor lasers
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2019) Zeghuzi, Anissa; Wünsche, Hans-Jürgen; Wenzel, Hans; Radziunas, Mindaugas; Fuhrmann, Jürgen; Klehr, Andreas; Bandelow, Uwe; Knigge, Andrea
    We propose a physically realistic and yet numerically applicable thermal model to account for short and long term self-heating within broad-area lasers. Although the temperature increase is small under pulsed operation, a waveguide that is formed within a few-ns-long pulse can result in a transition from a gain-guided to an index-guided structure, leading to near and far field narrowing. Under continuous wave operation the longitudinally varying temperature profile is obtained self-consistently. The resulting unfavorable narrowing of the near field can be successfully counteracted by etching trenches.