Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

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 …

Nonlocal bonding of a soliton and a blue-detuned state in a microcomb laser

A Cutrona, V Cecconi, PH Hanzard, M Rowley… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

High-order coherent communications using mode-locked dark-pulse Kerr combs from microresonators

A Fülöp, M Mazur, A Lorences-Riesgo… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microresonator frequency combs harness the nonlinear Kerr effect in an integrated optical
cavity to generate a multitude of phase-locked frequency lines. The line spacing can reach …

Heteronuclear soliton molecules in optical microresonators

W Weng, R Bouchand, E Lucas, E Obrzud… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Optical soliton molecules are bound states of solitons that arise from the balance between
attractive and repulsive effects. Having been observed in systems ranging from optical fibres …

Coexistence of multiple nonlinear states in a tristable passive Kerr resonator

M Anderson, Y Wang, F Leo, S Coen, M Erkintalo… - Physical Review X, 2017 - APS
Passive Kerr cavities driven by coherent laser fields display a rich landscape of nonlinear
physics, including bistability, pattern formation, and localized dissipative structures …

Coexistence and interactions between nonlinear states with different polarizations in a monochromatically driven passive Kerr resonator

AU Nielsen, B Garbin, S Coen, SG Murdoch… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We report on experimental observations of coexistence and interactions between nonlinear
states with different polarizations in a passive Kerr resonator driven at a single carrier …

Chirped optical pulses for generalized longitudinal Lugiato Lefever: cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation

N Aziz, AR Seadawy, U Raza, K Ali… - Optical and Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Lugiato–Lefever equation is a cubic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSEs)
that occurs as a model in nonlinear optics and includes dam**, detuning, and driving. On …

Switching dynamics of dark-pulse Kerr frequency comb states in optical microresonators

E Nazemosadat, A Fülöp, ÓB Helgason, PH Wang… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Dissipative Kerr solitons are localized structures that exist in nonlinear optical cavities. They
lead to the formation of microcombs—chip-scale frequency combs that could facilitate …

Frequency-comb formation in doubly resonant second-harmonic generation

F Leo, T Hansson, I Ricciardi, M De Rosa, S Coen… - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We theoretically study the generation of optical frequency combs and corresponding pulse
trains in doubly resonant intracavity second-harmonic generation (SHG). We find that …