Figure 1: Experimental set-up.
From: Topological solitons as addressable phase bits in a driven laser

The slave laser is submitted to optical injection by the master laser. Unidirectional coupling is ensured by an optical isolator (OI) and phase perturbations can be applied to the slave laser via the fibre-coupled electro-optic phase modulator (EOM). The arrows show a schematic view in the ℜ(E), ℑ(E) plane of several Φ-bits stored in the feedback loop.