Simulations of soliton emission and propagation in a linear AlGaAs waveguide with one nonlinear cladding are presented. The device, which has realistic parameters, operates below half the bandgap and emits light into the cladding for a given input power. The use of selective disordering of the MQW guiding layer to realize the linear/nonlinear sections is discussed.

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• G. I. Stegeman, C. T. Seaton, J. Chilwell and D. Smith., "Nonlinear waves guided by thin films," Appl. Phys. Lett. 44, 830-832 (1984). [CrossRef]
• C. T. Seaton, J. D. Valera, R. L. Shoemaker, G. I. Stegeman, J. T. Chilwell and S. D. Smith, "Calculations of nonlinear TE waves guided by Thin Dielectric Films Bounded by Nonlinear Media," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE-21, 774-783 (1985). [CrossRef]
• J. V. Moloney, J. Ariyasu, C. T. Seaton and G. I. Stegeman, "Stability of nonlinear stationary waves guided by a thin film bounded by nonlinear media," Appl. Phys. Lett. 48, 826-828 (1986). [CrossRef]
• D. R. Heatley, E. M. Wright, and G. I. Stegeman, "Soliton coupler," Appl. Phys. Lett. 53, 172-174 (1988). [CrossRef]
• C. J. Hamilton, J. H. Marsh, D. C. Hutchings, J. S. Aitchison, G. T. Kennedy and W. Sibbett, "Localized Kerr-type nonlinearities in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well structures at 1.55 æm," Appl. Phys. Lett. 68, 3078-3080 (1996). [CrossRef]
• B. S. Ooi, K. McIlvaney, M. W. Street, A. Saher Helmy, S. G. Ayling, A. C. Bryce, J. H. Marsh, and J. S. Roberts, "Selective quantum-well intermixing on GaAs-AlGaAs structures using impurity-free vacancy diffusion," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. QE-33, 1784-1793 (1997).
• R. J. Deri and M. A. Emanuel, "Consistent formula for the refractive index of Al(1-x)Ga(x)As below the band edge," J. Appl. Phys. 77, 4667 (1995). [CrossRef]
• S. Adachi, "Optical dispersion relations for GaP, GaAs, GaSb, InP, InAs, InSb, AlxGa1-xAs, and In1-xGaxAsyP1-y," J. Appl. Phys. 66, 6030 (1989). [CrossRef]
• M. Sheik-Bahae, D. C. Hutchings, D. J. Hagan and E. W. Van Stryland, "Dispersion of bound electronic nonlinear refraction in solids," IEEE J. Quantum Electron., 27, 1296-1309 (1991). [CrossRef]
• C. C. Yang, A. Villeneuve, G. I. Stegeman, Cheng-Hui Lin and Hao-Hsiung Lin, "Anisotropic Two-Photon Transitions in GaAs/AlGaAs Multiple Quantum Well Waveguides," IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 29, 2934-2939 (1993). [CrossRef]

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