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A coherently pumped, passive cavity supports, in the normal dispersion regime, the propagation of still interlocked fronts or switching waves that form invariant localized temporal structures. We address theoretically the problem of the excitation of this type of wave packet. First, we map all the dynamical behaviors of the switching waves as a function of accessible parameters, namely, the cavity detuning and input energy deficiency, using box-like excitation of the intracavity field. Then we show how a good degree of control can be obtained by applying a negative or positive external pulsed excitation. 

Abstract The inverse scattering transform for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation is presented for a general class of initial conditions whose asymptotic behavior at infinity consists of counterpropagating waves. The formulation takes into account the branched nature of the two asymptotic eigenvalues of the associated scattering problem. The Jost eigenfunctions and scattering coefficients are defined explicitly as single‐valued functions on the complex plane with jump discontinuities along certain branch cuts. The analyticity properties, symmetries, discrete spectrum, asymptotics, and behavior at the branch points are discussed explicitly. The inverse problem is formulated as a matrix Riemann‐Hilbert problem with poles. Reductions to all cases previously discussed in the literature are explicitly discussed. The scattering data associated to a few special cases consisting of physically relevant Riemann problems are explicitly computed.