We demonstrate switching on and off of spatial solitons in a semiconductor microresonator by injection of light coherent with the background illumination. Evidence results that the formation of the solitons and their switching does not involve thermal processes.
@article{arxiv.nlin/0201013,
title = {Coherent switching of semiconductor resonator solitons},
author = {V. B. Taranenko and F. -J. Ahlers and K. Pierz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0201013},
year = {2009}
}