Softphotonics has emerged as a new discipline that utilizes soft matter (ie, liquids, gels, bio‐
materials) as waveguide materials with versatile functionalities. The flexible properties of soft …

Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

Laser cavity-solitons can appear in systems comprised of a nonlinear microcavity nested
within an amplifying fiber loop. These states are robust and self-emergent and constitute an …

Optical frequency comb, with precisely controlled spectral lines spanning a broad range, has
been the key enabling technology for many scientific breakthroughs. In addition to the …

Optical frequency combs are lightwaves composed of a large number of equidistant spectral
lines. They are important for metrology, spectroscopy, communications and fundamental …

The engineering of synthetic dimensions allows for the construction of fictitious lattice
structures by coupling the discrete degrees of freedom of a physical system. This method …

Frequency conversion of dissipative solitons associated with the generation of broadband
optical frequency combs having a tooth spacing of hundreds of giga-hertz is a topical …

A plethora of applications have recently motivated extensive efforts regarding the generation
of Kerr solitons and coherent frequency combs. However, the Kerr (cubic) nonlinearity is …

High-Q microcavities with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities add lots of versatility in
controlling microcombs. Here, we study microcavity simulton and soliton dynamics …

We propose a spinning nonlinear resonator as an experimentally accessible platform to
achieve nonreciprocal control of optical solitons. Nonreciprocity here results from the …