Cavity soliton laser based on mutually coupled semiconductor microresonators.
We report on experimental observation of localized structures in two mutually coupled broad-area semiconductor resonators, one of which acts as a saturable absorber. These structures coexist with a dark homogeneous background and they have the same properties as cavity solitons without requiring the presence of a driving beam into the system. They can be switched individually on and off by means of a local addressing beam.
Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, Institut Non-Linéaire de Nice, Valbonne, France.
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