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 …

Emerging material systems for integrated optical Kerr frequency combs

A Kovach, D Chen, J He, H Choi, AH Dogan… - Advances in Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The experimental realization of a Kerr frequency comb represented the convergence of
research in materials, physics, and engineering. This symbiotic relationship continues to …

Temporal solitons in microresonators driven by optical pulses

E Obrzud, S Lecomte, T Herr - Nature Photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Continuous-wave laser-driven, high-Q Kerr–nonlinear optical microresonators have enabled
the generation of optical frequency combs, ultralow-noise microwaves and ultrashort optical …

All-optical dissipative discrete time crystals

H Taheri, AB Matsko, L Maleki, K Sacha - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Time crystals are periodic states exhibiting spontaneous symmetry breaking in either time-
independent or periodically-driven quantum many-body systems. Spontaneous modification …

Kerr optical frequency combs: theory, applications and perspectives

YK Chembo - Nanophotonics, 2016 - degruyter.com
The optical frequency comb technology is one of the most important breakthrough in
photonics in recent years. This concept has revolutionized the science of ultra-stable …

[HTML][HTML] Sideband injection locking in microresonator frequency combs

T Wildi, A Ulanov, N Englebert, T Voumard, T Herr - APL photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Frequency combs from continuous-wave-driven Kerr-nonlinear microresonators have
evolved into a key photonic technology with applications from optical communication to …

Spectral purification of microwave signals with disciplined dissipative Kerr solitons

W Weng, E Lucas, G Lihachev, VE Lobanov, H Guo… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Continuous-wave-driven Kerr nonlinear microresonators give rise to self-organization in
terms of dissipative Kerr solitons, which constitute optical frequency combs that can be used …

Kerr-microresonator solitons from a chirped background

DC Cole, JR Stone, M Erkintalo, KY Yang, X Yi… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Optical frequency combs based on solitons in nonlinear microresonators open up new
regimes for optical metrology and signal processing across a range of expanding and …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamics of dissipative structures in coherently-driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic potential

Y Sun, P Parra-Rivas, M Ferraro, F Mangini… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2023 - Elsevier
By means of a modified Lugiato–Lefever equation model, we investigate the nonlinear
dynamics of dissipative wave structures in coherently-driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic …

Spatial mode-interaction induced single soliton generation in microresonators

C Bao, Y Xuan, DE Leaird, S Wabnitz, M Qi, AM Weiner - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Soliton mode-locking in microresonators enables chip-scale coherent optical frequency
comb generation. However, it usually leads to multi-soliton combs with a structured …