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HindawiPublishingCorporation AdvancesinOpticalTechnologies Volume2011,ArticleID628761,23pages doi:10.1155/2011/628761 ReviewArticle CavitySolitonsinVCSELDevices S.Barbay, R.Kuszelewicz, andJ.R.Tredicce 1 1 2 1 2 LaboratoiredePhotoniqueetdeNanostructures,CNRS-UPR20,RoutedeNozay,91460Marcoussis,France InstitutNonLin′eairedeNice,UMR6618CNRS-Universit′edeNiceSophia-Antipolis,1361RoutedeLucioles,06560Valbonne,France CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoS.Barbay,sylvain.barbay@rs.fr Received20June2011;Accepted9August2011 AcademicEditor:KrassimirPanajotov Copyright?2011S.Barbayetal.Thisisanopenaccess articledistributedunder theCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense, whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited. WereviewadvancesontheexperimentalstudyofcavitysolitonsinVCSELsinthepastdecade.Weemphasizeonthedesign andfabricationofelectricallyoropticallypumpedbroad-areaVCSELsusedforCSsformationandreviewdi?erentexperimental con?gurations.PotentialapplicationsofCSsinthe?eldofphotonicsarediscussed,inparticulartheuseofCSsforall-optical processingofinformationandforVCSELscharacterization.Prospectsonself-localizationstudiesbasedonverticalcavitydevices involvingnewphysicalmechanismsarealsogiven. 1.Introduction e.g.,[7–9]).Opticswasnotanexception.Afterthereportof perioddoublingandchaosinamodulatedlaser[10],several papersshowedtheoreticallyandexperimentallytheappear- ance of instabilities in optical systems [11]. In particular, laser with injected signal and optical ampli?ers have been exhaustively studied [12–17]. Dynamics of semiconductor lasers under injection and delayed optical feedback were also objects of interests mainly because of the possible applications of such devices in optical communication systems[18–20]. Later,mainly during the 90s, the interest shiftedtowardsspatiotemporalinstabilities.Thepossibility of observing optical vortices [21] and ?nally reach optical turbulencewasvery