Recent progress on optical rogue waves in fiber lasers: status, challenges, and perspectives

Y Song, Z Wang, C Wang, K Panajotov… - Advanced …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Rogue waves (RWs) are rare, extreme amplitude, localized wave packets, which have
received much interest recently in different areas of physics. Fiber lasers with their abundant …

Emerging material systems for integrated optical Kerr frequency combs

A Kovach, D Chen, J He, H Choi, AH Dogan… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

Real-time observation of the buildup of soliton molecules

X Liu, X Yao, Y Cui - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Real-time spectroscopy access to ultrafast fiber lasers opens new opportunities for exploring
complex soliton interaction dynamics. Here, we have reported the first observation, to the …

Dynamics of soliton crystals in optical microresonators

M Karpov, MHP Pfeiffer, H Guo, W Weng, J Liu… - Nature Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators combine nonlinear optical physics with
photonic-integrated technologies. They are promising for a number of applications ranging …

Super-efficient temporal solitons in mutually coupled optical cavities

X Xue, X Zheng, B Zhou - Nature Photonics, 2019 - nature.com
A coherently driven Kerr optical cavity is able to sustain dissipative temporal solitons,
enabling all-optical data storage buffers and broadband frequency combs. Kerr solitons are …

All-optical dissipative discrete time crystals

H Taheri, AB Matsko, L Maleki, K Sacha - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Time crystals are periodic states exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking in either time-
independent or periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Spontaneous modification …

Build‐Up of dissipative optical soliton molecules via diverse soliton interactions

J Peng, H Zeng - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solitons can form bound states that are frequently referred to as soliton molecules as they
exhibit molecule‐like dynamics. The build‐up phase of the optical soliton molecule remains …

Formation of optical supramolecular structures in a fibre laser by tailoring long-range soliton interactions

W He, M Pang, DH Yeh, J Huang, CR Menyuk… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Self-assembly of fundamental elements through weak, long-range interactions plays a
central role in both supramolecular DNA assembly and bottom-up synthesis of …

Revealing the behavior of soliton buildup in a mode-locked laser

X Liu, Y Cui - Advanced Photonics, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Real-time spectroscopy based on an emerging time-stretch technique can map the spectral
information of optical waves into the time domain, opening several fascinating explorations …

Emergent nonlinear phenomena in a driven dissipative photonic dimer

A Tikan, J Riemensberger, K Komagata, S Hönl… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Collective effects leading to spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal pattern formation in complex
nonlinear systems driven out of equilibrium cannot be described at the single-particle level …