AI 中文总结
本文综述腔孤子的相关研究，指出其是空间信息的天然“比特”，兼具鲁棒性与可塑性，近期研究预测半导体腔模型中存在该孤子，其特性对光学信息处理应用具有吸引力。
AI 中文摘要
包含非线性介质的受驱动光学腔可支撑稳定的类孤子物体，即均匀背景上的明亮非衍射光斑。重要的是，该非线性介质无需支撑普通（传播型）空间孤子，腔孤子已在饱和吸收体中被预测并观测到，还被预测存在于自散焦介质中。本文综述了此类腔孤子的历史、现状及物理解释。近期研究预测半导体腔模型中存在腔孤子，其特性对光学信息处理应用具有吸引力。腔孤子是空间信息的天然“比特”，兼具鲁棒性与可塑性，本文提及了其独特特性的一些潜在应用。
英文摘要
A driven optical cavity containing a nonlinear medium can support stable, soliton-like objects, bright non-diffracting spots of light on a uniform background. Importantly, the nonlinear medium need not support ordinary (propagating) spatial solitons, and cavity solitons have been both predicted and observed in a saturable absorber, and predicted to even exist in self-defocusing media. The history, present status, and physical interpretation of such cavity solitons is reviewed. Recent research predicts cavity solitons in semiconductor cavity models with properties interesting for applications to optical information processing. Cavity solitons are natural `bits' for spatial information, possessing both robustness and plasticity, and some potential applications of their unique properties are mentioned.
Comments15 pages, 7 figures
Journal refAsian Journal of Physics 7, 665-677 (1998)
