Phase and intensity control of dissipative Kerr cavity solitons

M Erkintalo, SG Murdoch, S Coen - Journal of the Royal Society of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Dissipative Kerr cavity solitons are pulses of light that can persist in coherently driven
nonlinear optical resonators. They have attracted significant attention over the past decade …

Nozaki–Bekki solitons in semiconductor lasers

N Opačak, D Kazakov, LL Columbo, M Beiser… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Optical frequency-comb sources, which emit perfectly periodic and coherent waveforms of
light, have recently rapidly progressed towards chip-scale integrated solutions. Among them …

[HTML][HTML] Near-zero-dispersion soliton and broadband modulational instability Kerr microcombs in anomalous dispersion

Z Xiao, T Li, M Cai, H Zhang, Y Huang, C Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
The developing advances of microresonator-based Kerr cavity solitons have enabled
versatile applications ranging from communication, signal processing to high-precision …

Engineered zero-dispersion microcombs using CMOS-ready photonics

QX Ji, W Jin, L Wu, Y Yu, Z Yuan, W Zhang, M Gao, B Li… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Normal group velocity dispersion (GVD) microcombs offer high comb line power and high
pumping efficiency compared to bright pulse microcombs. The recent demonstration of …

Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators

Y Yang, JW Henke, AS Raja, FJ Kappert, G Huang… - Science, 2024 - science.org
The short de Broglie wavelength and strong interaction empower free electrons to probe
structures and excitations in materials and biomolecules. Recently, electron-photon …

[HTML][HTML] Fourier synthesis dispersion engineering of photonic crystal microrings for broadband frequency combs

G Moille, X Lu, J Stone, D Westly… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Dispersion engineering of microring resonators is crucial for optical frequency comb
applications, to achieve targeted bandwidths and powers of individual comb teeth. However …

Experimental observations of bright dissipative cavity solitons and their collapsed snaking in a Kerr resonator with normal dispersion driving

Z Li, Y Xu, S Coen, SG Murdoch, M Erkintalo - Optica, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Driven Kerr nonlinear optical resonators can sustain localized structures known as
dissipative Kerr cavity solitons, which have recently attracted significant attention as the …

[HTML][HTML] Chaotic microcomb inertia-free parallel ranging

A Lukashchuk, J Riemensberger, A Stroganov… - Apl Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The increasing demand for high pixel acquisition rates in the fields of augmented reality,
autonomous driving, and robotics has led to a growing interest in solid-state beam scanning …

[HTML][HTML] Symmetry broken vectorial Kerr frequency combs from Fabry-Pérot resonators

L Hill, EM Hirmer, G Campbell, T Bi, A Ghosh… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of a pair of vector temporal cavity solitons has been
established as a paradigm to modulate optical frequency combs, and finds many …

Frequency comb generation in a pulse-pumped normal dispersion Kerr mini-resonator

Y Xu, A Sharples, J Fatome, S Coen, M Erkintalo… - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Kerr microresonators driven in the normal dispersion regime typically require the presence
of localized dispersion perturbations, such as those induced by avoided mode crossings, to …