The present review summarizes experimental and theoretical work dealing with self-
organized solitary localized structures (LSs) that are observed in spatially extended …

We review the properties of optical spatial dissipative solitons (SDS). These are stable, self‐
localized optical excitations sitting on a uniform, or quasi‐uniform, background in a …

Temporal cavity solitons are packets of light persisting in a continuously driven nonlinear
resonator. They are robust attracting states, readily excited through a phase-insensitive and …

Microcavity polaritons are composite half-light half-matter quasiparticles, which have
recently been demonstrated to exhibit rich physical properties, such as non-equilibrium …

Optical tweezers use laser light to trap and move microscopic particles in space. Here we
demonstrate a similar control over ultrashort light pulses, but in time. Our experiment …

The regions of existence and stability of dark solitons in the Lugiato-Lefever model with
normal chromatic dispersion are described. These localized states are shown to be …

Localized structures (LSs) in dissipative media appear in various fields of natural science
such as biology, chemistry, plant ecology, optics and laser physics. The proposal for this …

We report on experimental observation of localized structures in two mutually coupled broad-
area semiconductor resonators, one of which acts as a saturable absorber. These structures …

We report on a systematic study of temporal Kerr cavity soliton dynamics in the presence of
pulsed or amplitude-modulated driving fields. In stark contrast to the more extensively …

The origin, stability, and bifurcation structure of different types of bright localized structures
described by the Lugiato-Lefever equation are studied. This mean field model describes the …