Cavity soliton laser based on mutually coupled semiconductor microresonators

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Sep 19;101(12):123905. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.123905. Epub 2008 Sep 18.

Abstract

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.