Abstract

Spatial pattern formation in the field of nonlinear optics have received much attention in recent years. In particular localised structures such as cavity solitons (CS) have been experimentally demonstrated in semiconductor microcavities [1]. The compactness and fast response time of semiconductor devices could allow for parallel all-optical processing in telecommunications, where the binary information would be encoded in the form of localised structures in the transverse plane.

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