Abstract

Cavity solitons (CS) supported by the quadratic nonlinearity have recently been predicted in both optical parametric oscillator (OPO) [1] and second harmonic generation [2] configurations. The large values of the effective χ² accessible in artificially phase-matched materials and the instantaneous electronic response are important practical advantages of using CS in the χ ²- cavity in future all-optical schemes of the information processing.

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