Dissipative Kerr Solitons in a III‐V Microresonator

G Moille, L Chang, W Xie, A Rao, X Lu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Stable microresonator Kerr soliton frequency combs in a III‐V platform (AlGaAs on SiO2) are
demonstrated through quenching of thermorefractive effects by cryogenic cooling to …

Kerr-microresonator soliton frequency combs at cryogenic temperatures

G Moille, X Lu, A Rao, Q Li, DA Westly, L Ranzani… - Physical review applied, 2019 - APS
We investigate the accessibility and projected low-noise performance of single-soliton Kerr
frequency combs in silicon nitride microresonators enabled by operating at cryogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Dual-mode microresonators as straightforward access to octave-spanning dissipative Kerr solitons

H Weng, AA Afridi, J Li, M McDermott, H Tu, LP Barry… - Apl Photonics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The Kerr soliton frequency comb is a revolutionary compact ruler of coherent light that allows
applications from precision metrology to quantum information technology. The universal …

Directly accessing octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in an AlN microresonator

H Weng, J Liu, AA Afridi, J Li, J Dai, X Ma… - Photonics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Self-referenced dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) based on optical microresonators offer
prominent characteristics allowing for various applications from precision measurement to …

Ultralow-power chip-based soliton microcombs for photonic integration

J Liu, AS Raja, M Karpov, B Ghadiani, MHP Pfeiffer… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to
compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for …

Surpassing the nonlinear conversion efficiency of soliton microcombs

ÓB Helgason, M Girardi, Z Ye, F Lei, J Schröder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Laser frequency combs are enabling some of the most exciting scientific endeavours in the
twenty-first century, ranging from the development of optical clocks to the calibration of the …

Single-mode dispersive waves and soliton microcomb dynamics

X Yi, QF Yang, X Zhang, KY Yang, X Li… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons are self-sustaining optical wavepackets in resonators. They use the
Kerr nonlinearity to both compensate dispersion and offset optical loss. Besides providing …

Thermal decoherence and laser cooling of Kerr microresonator solitons

TE Drake, JR Stone, TC Briles, SB Papp - Nature Photonics, 2020 - nature.com
Thermal noise is ubiquitous in microscopic systems and high-precision measurements. The
control of thermal noise would reveal quantum regimes and enable fundamental physics …

Bringing short-lived dissipative Kerr soliton states in microresonators into a steady state

V Brasch, M Geiselmann, MHP Pfeiffer… - Optics express, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Dissipative Kerr solitons have recently been generated in optical microresonators, enabling
ultrashort optical pulses at microwave repetition rates, that constitute coherent and …

Octave-spanning dissipative Kerr soliton frequency combs in Si3N4 microresonators

MHP Pfeiffer, C Herkommer, J Liu, H Guo, M Karpov… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Octave-spanning, self-referenced frequency combs are applied in diverse fields ranging
from precision metrology to astrophysical spectrometer calibration. The octave-spanning …