Electrical addressing and temporal tweezing of localized pulses in passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers

Localized structures (LSs) in optical resonators have attracted much interest in the last twenty years. While LSs are ubiquitous in nature and their investigation conveys an intrinsic fundamental appeal, optical LSs are very attractive also for applications. Because they can be individually addressed and manipulated, LSs can be used as elementary bits of information for all-optical information processing. Recently, we have shown how phase invariant temporal Localized Structures (LSs) can evolve from passive mode-locking (PML).