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Mode-locked lasers have been widely used to explore interactions between optical solitons, including bound-soliton states that may be regarded as "photonic molecules". Conventional mode-locked lasers can however host at most only a few…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-27 Wenbin He , Meng Pang , Dung-Han Yeh , Jiapeng Huang , Philip St. J. Russell

We demonstrate that flat-topped dissipative solitonic pulses, platicons, and corresponding frequency combs can be excited in optical microresonators with normal group velocity dispersion using either amplitude modulation of the pump or…

Optics · Physics 2016-01-20 Valery E. Lobanov , Grigory Lihachev , Michael L. Gorodetsky

Dissipative Kerr soliton microcomb has been recognized as a promising on-chip multi-wavelength laser source for fiber optical communications, as its comb lines possess frequency and phase stability far beyond independent lasers. In the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yong Geng , Heng Zhou , Wenwen Cui , Xinjie Han , Qiang Zhang , Boyuan Liu , Guangwei Deng , Qiang Zhou , Kun Qiu

An optical comb is shown to arise from a whispering gallery mode resonator pumped by two optical frequencies. Two externally excited modes couple due to Kerr nonlinearity to initially empty modes and give rise to new frequency components.…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-29 Dmitry V. Strekalov , Nan Yu

The nonlinear interaction of a microresonator pumped by a laser has revealed complex dynamics including soliton formation and chaos. Initial studies of coupled-resonator systems reveal even more complicated dynamics that can lead to…

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) intrinsically exhibit two degrees of freedom through their group and phase rotation velocity. Periodic extraction of the DKS into a waveguide produces a pulse train and yields the resulting optical frequency…

Microresonator frequency combs offer tremendous opportunity to advance applications in fundamental research and technology by linking the optical and microwave frequency domains. Kerr-nonlinear microresonators further enable the generation…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-20 Haixin Liu , Alexa Carollo , Jizhao Zang , Scott B. Papp

Temporal cavity solitons in ring microresonators provide broad and controllable generation of frequency combs with applications in frequency standards and precise atomic clocks. Three level media in the {\Lambda} configuration inside…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-02 Gian-Luca Oppo , David Grant , Mansour Eslami

Frequency combs from continuous-wave-driven Kerr-nonlinear microresonators have evolved into a key photonic technology with applications from optical communication to precision spectroscopy. Essential to many of these applications is the…

Soliton dynamics in coupled Kerr microcavities is an important aspect of frequency comb technologies, with applications in optical communication and precision metrology. We investigate a minimal system consisting of two nearly identical…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-28 Daria A. Dolinina , Dmitry V. Turaev , Andrei G. Vladimirov

We study the (1+1)-dimensional quasiperiodic multicolor solitons due to cascading quadratic nonlinear response in generalized one-dimensional quasiperiodic optical superlattice waveguides and show that the dynamic equations describing the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-03-26 Zhen Qi

Many physical systems display quantized energy states. In optics, interacting resonant cavities show a transmission spectrum with split eigenfrequencies, similar to the split energy levels that result from interacting states in bonded…

Rotation symmetry of microresonators supports the generation of phase-locked counter-propagating (CP) solitons that can potentially miniaturize dual-comb systems. Realization of these dual-comb compatible solitons in photonic integrated…

Soliton microcombs provide compact, broadband, coherent light sources for precision metrology, spectroscopy, communications, and microwave photonics. Extending their spectral span while retaining useful output power remains challenging and…

Frequency combs have applications that extend from the ultra-violet into the mid-infrared bands. Microcombs, a miniature and often semiconductor-chip-based device, can potentially access most of these applications, but are currently more…

By identifying the similarities between the coupled-wave equations and the parametrically driven nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation, we unveil the existence condition of the quadratic soliton mode-locked degenerate optical parametric…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-26 Mingming Nie , Shu-Wei Huang

Despite the ongoing progress in integrated optical frequency comb technology, compact sources of short bright pulses in the mid-infrared wavelength range from 3 {\mu}m to 12 {\mu}m so far remained beyond reach. The state-of-the-art…

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators have emerged as a powerful tool for compact and coherent frequency comb generation. Advances in nanofabrication have allowed precise dispersion engineering, unlocking octave-spanning…

Chip-scale optical frequency combs have attracted significant research interest and can be used in applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to telecom channel generators and lidar systems. In the time domain, microresonator based…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-22 Shuangyou Zhang , Toby Bi , Pascal Del'Haye

Kerr soliton microcombs have recently emerged as a prominent topic in integrated photonics and enabled new horizons for optical frequency metrology. Kerr soliton microcombs, as its name suggests, are based on the high-order cubic optical…