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Dissipative Kerr solitons from optical microresonators, commonly referred to as soliton microcombs, have been developed for a broad range of applications, including precision measurement, optical frequency synthesis, and ultra-stable…
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The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators has provided a route to compact frequency combs of high repetition rate, which have already been employed for optical frequency synthesizers, ultrafast ranging, coherent…
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Silicon nitride Dissipative Kerr Soliton (DKS) microcombs have emerged as a future solution to bring metrological optical frequency comb capabilities into a photonic integrated platform with mass-scale fabrication benefits. Precision…