Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

T Herr, ML Gorodetsky… - Nonlinear optical cavity …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

Ultra-dense optical data transmission over standard fibre with a single chip source

B Corcoran, M Tan, X Xu, A Boes, J Wu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Micro-combs-optical frequency combs generated by integrated micro-cavity resonators–offer
the full potential of their bulk counterparts, but in an integrated footprint. They have enabled …

Laser cavity-soliton microcombs

H Bao, A Cooper, M Rowley, L Di Lauro… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Microcavity-based frequency combs, or 'microcombs',, have enabled many fundamental
breakthroughs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,–through the discovery of temporal cavity-solitons. These self …

Turing patterns in a fiber laser with a nested microresonator: Robust and controllable microcomb generation

H Bao, L Olivieri, M Rowley, ST Chu, BE Little… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Microcombs based on Turing patterns have been extensively studied in configurations that
can be modeled by the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Typically, such schemes are implemented …

Mode-locked dark pulse Kerr combs in normal-dispersion microresonators

X Xue, Y Xuan, Y Liu, PH Wang, S Chen, J Wang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The generation of Kerr frequency combs in a coherently driven nonlinear microresonator is
now extensively investigated more generally by the research community as a potentially …

Modeling of octave-spanning Kerr frequency combs using a generalized mean-field Lugiato–Lefever model

S Coen, HG Randle, T Sylvestre, M Erkintalo - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
A generalized Lugiato–Lefever equation is numerically solved with a Newton–Raphson
method to model<? A3B2 show [pmg: line-break justify=" yes"/]?> Kerr frequency combs. We …

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 …

Nonlinear photonics with high-Q whispering-gallery-mode resonators

G Lin, A Coillet, YK Chembo - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-and ultrahigh-Q whispering-gallery mode resonators have the capability to trap
photons by total internal reflection for a duration ranging from nanoseconds to milliseconds …

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 …