We demonstrate experimentally the bistable nature of the bright spatial solitons in a semiconductor microresonator and show that they can be created and destroyed by incoherent local optical injection.
@article{arxiv.nlin/0003004,
title = {Incoherent optical switching of semiconductor resonator solitons},
author = {V. B. Taranenko and C. O. Weiss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0003004},
year = {2007}
}