Abstract
We analyze experimentally and numerically the formation of dissipative solitons propagating in a forced ring semiconductor laser. Due to the oscillatory nature of the system, the solitons fundamentally result from phase dynamics and they carry a chiral charge. We analyze the role of the semiconductor medium dynamics in the selection of only one of the two possible values for this chiral charge which is observed in the experiment.
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