Nature of soliton interaction in fiber lasers with continuous external optical injection

Andrey Komarov,1,2,* Konstantin Komarov,1 Alioune Niang,3 and François Sanchez3 1Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Acad. Koptyug Pr. 1, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia 2Novosibirsk State Technical University, K. Marx Pr. 20, 630092 Novosibirsk, Russia 3Laboratoire de Photonique d’Angers EA 4644, Université d’Angers, 2 Bd. Lavoisier, 49000 Angers, France (Received 19 November 2013; published 24 January 2014)