Abstract

One of the goals of the extensive work in the field of transverse pattern formation in nonlinear optical systems¹ is the investigation of possible applications to optical information technology. A major result is that the problem of correlation among different parts of a global structure, which eventually would destroy stored information, can be overcome by generating spatial structures that are localised in space, individually addressable and independent one from the other. These structures, called Cavity Solitons (CSs)^2,3, have been theoretically predicted in nonlinear materials inside a cavity driven by a coherent holding beam acting as an external input.

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