Recent advances in laser self-injection locking to high-Q microresonators

NM Kondratiev, VE Lobanov, AE Shitikov, RR Galiev… - Frontiers of …, 2023 - Springer
The stabilization and manipulation of laser frequency by means of an external cavity are
nearly ubiquitously used in fundamental research and laser applications. While most of the …

ℏω versus ℏk : dispersion and energy constraints on time-varying photonic materials and time crystals

Z Hayran, JB Khurgin, F Monticone - Optical Materials Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Photonic time-varying systems have attracted significant attention owing to their rich physics
and potential opportunities for new and enhanced functionalities. In this context, the duality …

Observation of a continuous time crystal

P Kongkhambut, J Skulte, L Mathey, JG Cosme… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Time crystals are classified as discrete or continuous depending on whether they
spontaneously break discrete or continuous time translation symmetry. Although discrete …

Observation of a dissipative time crystal

H Keßler, P Kongkhambut, C Georges, L Mathey… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We present the first experimental realization of a time crystal stabilized by dissipation. The
central signature in our implementation in a driven open atom-cavity system is a period …

Algebraic theory of quantum synchronization and limit cycles under dissipation

B Buča, C Booker, D Jaksch - SciPost Physics, 2022 - scipost.org
Synchronization is a phenomenon where interacting particles lock their motion and display
non-trivial dynamics. Despite intense efforts studying synchronization in systems without …

Photonic metamaterial analogue of a continuous time crystal

T Liu, JY Ou, KF MacDonald, NI Zheludev - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Time crystals are an eagerly sought phase of matter with broken time-translation symmetry.
Quantum time crystals with discretely broken time-translation symmetry have been …

Quantum metrology with boundary time crystals

V Montenegro, MG Genoni, A Bayat… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum sensing is one of the arenas that exemplifies the superiority of quantum
technologies over their classical counterparts. Such superiority, however, can be diminished …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in integrated Fabry–Perot microresonators

T Wildi, MA Gaafar, T Voumard, M Ludwig, T Herr - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in integrated microresonators have enabled breakthroughs
in sensing, communication, and signal processing. So far, integrated DKS sources have …

Realization of an inherent time crystal in a dissipative many-body system

YH Chen, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Time crystals are many-body states that spontaneously break translation symmetry in time
the way that ordinary crystals do in space. While experimental observations have confirmed …

[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 …