Active mid-infrared ring resonators

D Kazakov, TP Letsou, M Beiser, Y Zhi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
High-quality optical ring resonators can confine light in a small volume and store it for
millions of roundtrips. They have enabled the dramatic size reduction from laboratory scale …

Coupling dynamics of dissipative localized structures: From polarized vector solitons to soliton molecules

R Xia, Y Li, X Tang, G Xu - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Dissipative solitons are well known as representative nonlinear localized wave packets
resulting from the composite balance of dispersion, nonlinearity, gain and loss in optical …

Soliton pulse pairs at multiple colours in normal dispersion microresonators

Z Yuan, M Gao, Y Yu, H Wang, W Jin, QX Ji… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Soliton microcombs are helping to advance the miniaturization of a range of comb systems.
These combs mode lock through the formation of short temporal pulses in anomalous …

A heterogeneously integrated lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride photonic platform

M Churaev, RN Wang, A Riedhauser, V Snigirev… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The availability of thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) and advances in processing
have led to the emergence of fully integrated LiNbO3 electro-optic devices. Yet to date …

Emergent phenomena of vector solitons induced by the linear coupling

Y Du, Z He, Q Gao, H Zhang, C Zeng… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Coupling between modes is crucial for generating coherent structures and spatiotemporal
chaos in optical systems. In an ultrafast fiber laser with birefringence, the stable pulse is …

Nonlinear dynamics and Kerr frequency comb formation in lattices of coupled microresonators

A Tusnin, A Tikan, K Komagata… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Recently, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of microresonators
frequency combs based on dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). However, most of the studies …

[HTML][HTML] Present and future of terahertz integrated photonic devices

S Rajabali, IC Benea-Chelmus - Apl Photonics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Photonic integrated circuits have benefited many fields in the natural sciences. Their
nanoscale patterning has led to the discovery of novel sources and detectors from ultraviolet …

Topological temporally mode-locked laser

CR Leefmans, M Parto, J Williams, GHY Li, A Dutt… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Mode-locked lasers play a crucial role in modern science and technology. They are
essential to the study of ultrafast and nonlinear optics, and they have applications in …

Efficient microresonator frequency combs

QF Yang, Y Hu, V Torres-Company, K Vahala - eLight, 2024 - Springer
The rapid development of optical frequency combs from their table-top origins towards chip-
scale platforms has opened up exciting possibilities for comb functionalities outside …

Floquet-engineered nonlinearities and controllable pair-hopping processes: From optical Kerr cavities to correlated quantum matter

N Goldman, OK Diessel, L Barbiero, M Prüfer… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
This work explores the possibility of creating and controlling unconventional nonlinearities
by periodic driving, in a broad class of systems described by the nonlinear Schrödinger …