The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Ultrafast fiber lasers have significant applications in laser communications, ultra-precision
manufacturing, biomedical diagnostics, and so on. Among all the types of ultrashort pulses …

Self-organized solitons confined to an optical resonator would offer unique capabilities for
experiments in communication, computation and sensing with light. Here, we report the …

Earth-like planets, dark energy and variability of fundamental physical constants can be
discovered by observing wavelength shifts in the optical spectra of astronomical objects …

Continuous-wave laser-driven, high-Q Kerr–nonlinear optical microresonators have enabled
the generation of optical frequency combs, ultralow-noise microwaves and ultrashort optical …

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 …

Time crystals are periodic states exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking in either time-
independent or periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Spontaneous modification …

Self-assembly of fundamental elements through weak, long-range interactions plays a
central role in both supramolecular DNA assembly and bottom-up synthesis of …

Dissipative solitons are self-localized structures that can persist indefinitely in open systems
driven out of equilibrium. They play a key role in photonics, underpinning technologies from …

Self-assembly of particle-like dissipative solitons, in the presence of mutual interactions,
emphasizes the vibrant concept of soliton molecules in varieties of laser resonators …