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 …

Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously
balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states …

Mode-locking techniques have played a pivotal role in developing and advancing laser
technology. Stable fiber-cavity configurations can generate trains of pulses spanning from …

Laser cavity-soliton microcombs are robust optical pulsed sources, usually implemented
with a microresonator-filtered fibre laser. In such a configuration, a nonlinear microcavity …

Thermal nonlinear effects have been extensively studied in whispering-gallery optical
microcavities. Photothermal effect originating from high light power buildup in the …

Dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) microcomb has emerged as an enabling technology that
revolutionizes a wide range of applications in both basic science and technological …

In many disciplines, states that emerge in open systems far from equilibrium are determined
by a few global parameters1, 2. These states can often mimic thermodynamic equilibrium …

We theoretically present a design of self-starting operation of microcombs based on laser-
cavity solitons in a system composed of a micro-resonator nested in and coupled to an …

We experimentally investigated the self-pulsing (SP) oscillations induced by the thermo-
optic, free carrier, and Kerr nonlinear effects in integrated active silicon microring resonators …

The ability to tune the wavelength of light emission on a silicon chip is important for scalable
photonic networks, distributed photonic sensor networks, and next generation computer …