Abstract

Temporal cavity solitons (TCS) – localized dissipative structures of light propagating along the longitudinal axis of coherently driven optical cavities – are very promising for applications in telecommunication technology. In a recent work [1] formation and interactions of TCS in a standard silica fiber cavity were studied experimentally. Here we present a theoretical investigation of the interaction of the TCS within the framework of the Lugiato-Lefever (LL) model. Major attention is given to the interaction of oscillating solitons above a self-pulsing instability threshold and to the effect of external periodic modulations on the soliton interactions.

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