Mode-locking instability and multiple soliton formation in GaN polariton waveguide cavities

Abstract

We study the emergence of multi-soliton regimes in 1D ridge polariton waveguides of two different lengths. We show that by varying the position of the gain, which in out-of-equilibrium polariton systems is provided by the pumping laser and its associated excitonic reservoir, it is possible to tune the regime of soliton formation between single and multiple solitons. This soliton dynamics can be quantitatively reproduced by solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equations of the coupled exciton-photon system, which show that the soliton splitting mechanism is governed by the exciton reservoir dynamics.