This chapter describes the discovery and stable generation of temporal dissipative Kerr
solitons in continuous‐wave (CW) laser‐driven optical microresonators. The experimental …

Designing and engineering microresonator dispersion are essential for generating
microresonator frequency comb. Microresonator frequency combs (microcombs, Kerr …

By generating a Brillouin laser in an optical microresonator, we realize a soliton Kerr
microcomb through exciting the Kerr frequency comb using the generated Brillouin laser in …

Multi-mode waveguides are ubiquitously used in integrated photonics. Although interaction
among different spatial waveguide eigenmodes can induce novel nonlinear phenomena …

Octave-spanning, self-referenced frequency combs are applied in diverse fields ranging
from precision metrology to astrophysical spectrometer calibration. The octave-spanning …

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators combine nonlinear optical physics with
photonic-integrated technologies. They are promising for a number of applications ranging …

Thin film lithium niobate (LN) is bringing renewed potential to the realm of integrated
photonics. Its strong quadratic and cubic nonlinearities as well as wide transparency window …

Solitons occur in many physical systems when a nonlinearity compensates wave dispersion.
Their recently demonstrated formation in microresonators has opened a new research …

Dissipative Kerr solitons are self-sustaining optical wavepackets in resonators. They use the
Kerr nonlinearity to both compensate dispersion and offset optical loss. Besides providing …

The synthesis of ultralow-noise microwaves is of both scientific and technological relevance
for timing, metrology, communications and radio-astronomy. Today, the lowest reported …