Self-emergence of robust solitons in a microcavity

M Rowley, PH Hanzard, A Cutrona, H Bao, ST Chu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters,. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium, a …

Spontaneous pulse formation in edgeless photonic crystal resonators

SP Yu, DC Cole, H Jung, GT Moille, K Srinivasan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Nonlinearity in complex systems leads to pattern formation through fundamental interactions
between components. With integrated photonics, precision control of nonlinearity explores …

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 …

Frequency comb generation via cascaded second-order nonlinearities in microresonators

J Szabados, DN Puzyrev, Y Minet, L Reis, K Buse… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Optical frequency combs are revolutionizing modern time and frequency metrology. In the
past years, their range of applications has increased substantially, driven by their …

Two-colour dissipative solitons and breathers in microresonator second-harmonic generation

J Lu, DN Puzyrev, VV Pankratov, DV Skryabin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Nonlinear dynamics and Kerr frequency comb formation in lattices of coupled microresonators

A Tusnin, A Tikan, K Komagata… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Recently, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of microresonators
frequency combs based on dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). However, most of the studies …

Perfect soliton crystals on demand

Y He, J Ling, M Li, Q Lin - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in of soliton microcombs have shown great promise to revolutionize many
important areas such as optical communication, spectroscopic sensing, optical clock, and …

Quartic Kerr cavity combs: bright and dark solitons

P Parra-Rivas, S Hetzel, YV Kartashov… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We theoretically investigate the dynamics, bifurcation structure, and stability of localized
states in Kerr cavities driven at the pure fourth-order dispersion point. Both the normal and …

Thermal instabilities, frequency-comb formation, and temporal oscillations in Kerr microresonators

A Leshem, Z Qi, TF Carruthers, CR Menyuk, O Gat - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We analyze the consequences of dissipative heating in driven Kerr microresonators
theoretically and numerically, using a thermal Lugiato-Lefever model. We show that thermal …

Chirped-pulsed Kerr solitons in the Lugiato-Lefever equation with spectral filtering

X Dong, C Spiess, VG Bucklew, WH Renninger - Physical review research, 2021 - APS
Optical Kerr resonators support a variety of stable nonlinear phenomena in a simple and
compact design. The generation of ultrashort pulses and frequency combs has been shown …