Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom

LG Wright, WH Renninger, DN Christodoulides… - Optica, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The overall goal of photonics research is to understand and control light in new and richer
ways to facilitate new and richer applications. Many major developments to this end have …

Photonic frequency microcombs based on dissipative Kerr and quadratic cavity solitons

M Nie, Y Xie, B Li, SW Huang - Progress in Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons in Kerr resonators driven with phase-coherent optical pulses

Z Li, Y Xu, S Shamailov, X Wen, W Wang, X Wei… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
External driving of passive, nonlinear optical resonators has emerged over the past decade
as a novel route for the generation of ultrashort optical pulses and corresponding broadband …

Dispersion-less Kerr solitons in spectrally confined optical cavities

X Xue, P Grelu, B Yang, M Wang, S Li… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Solitons are self-reinforcing localized wave packets that manifest in the major areas of
nonlinear science, from optics to biology and Bose–Einstein condensates. Recently …

Coded information storage pulsed laser based on vector period-doubled pulsating solitons

H Han, R Wang, H Cao, X Wen, C Dai, W Liu… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
Pulsating soliton is a unique local structure in nonlinear dissipative system. Different from
the pulse train with equal amplitude generated by conventional average soliton, the …

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 …

Quartic soliton dynamics and pattern formations in passive driven fiber resonators with different quartic dispersion regimes

P Wang, Y Hao, Q Xu, Q Wang, J He, X Xiao… - Optics & Laser …, 2023 - Elsevier
Solitons are particle-like localized structures which can sustain characteristic shape in
various nonlinear systems. Very recently, the novel concept of quartic soliton with …

Generation and π-phase-induced oscillations of multi-soliton molecular complexes in ultrafast fiber lasers based on MOF-253@ Au

ZZ Si, LF Ren, DL Wang, ZT Ju, XP Wang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2025 - Elsevier
Multi-soliton molecular complexes (multi-SMCs) have been extensively studied in the fields
of nonlinear science and information coding due to their remarkable and rich molecular-like …

Transform-limited dissipative Kerr solitons with an ultraflat spectrum in a Fabry-Pérot microresonator with a spectral filter

Y Yu, Z Wang, Z Fang, Y Li, Z Zhang - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
The interplay between the dispersion and spectral filtering effect in Kerr-ring resonators
allows the formation of dispersion-less Kerr solitons, an alternative class of Kerr solitons …

Experimental observation of stimulated Raman scattering enabled localized structure in a normal dispersion FP resonator

T Li, K Wu, X Zhang, M Cai, J Chen - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Dissipative Kerr nonlinear cavities attract intense interest due to their rich dynamics and
capability to generate broadband, low-noise, mode-locked optical frequency combs for …