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Bifurcation structure of soliton self-injection locking in microresonators
S. Deshmukh, T. M. Schneider, A. Tikan
Self-injection locking (SIL) of a diode laser to a high quality-factor microresonator has recently become increasingly important in hybrid integrated photonics, providing access to…
Adjoint inverse design of microresonator frequency combs
Andrei Chuchalin, Alexey Tikan
Microresonator frequency combs are key components for integrating optical devices into photonic circuits. They provide high stability, coherence, and low noise, even without extern…
Frequency combs and coherent dissipative structures in nonlinear optical microresonators
Tobias Herr, Alexey Tikan, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Laser-driven high-Q Kerr-nonlinear optical microresonators enable parametric oscillation with low-power continuous-wave lasers and host a variety of coherent dissipative structures…
Nonlinear periodic orbit solutions and their bifurcation structure at the origin of soliton hopping in coupled microresonators
Savyaraj Deshmukh, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan +2
Microresonator frequency combs, essential for future integrated optical systems, rely on dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a single microresonator to achieve coherent frequenc…
Observation of a generalized Gibbs ensemble in photonics
Alvise Bastianello, Alexey Tikan, Francois Copie +2
In generic classical and quantum many-body systems, where typically energy and particle number are the only conserved quantities, stationary states are described by thermal equilib…
Voltage-tunable OPO with an alternating dispersion dimer integrated on chip
Dmitry Pidgayko, Aleksandr Tusnin, Johann Riemensberger +3
Optical parametric oscillators enable the conversion of pump light to new frequency bands using nonlinear optical processes. Recent advances in integrated nonlinear photonics have…
Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators
Yujia Yang, Jan-Wilke Henke, Arslan S. Raja +10
The short de Broglie wavelength and strong interaction empower free electrons to probe scattering and excitations in materials and resolve the structure of biomolecules. Recent adv…
Quiet point engineering for low-noise microwave generation with soliton microcombs
Andrea C. Triscari, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan +1
Low-noise microwave signals can be efficiently generated with microresonator-based dissipative Kerr solitons ('microcombs'). However, the achieved phase noise in integrated microco…
Dissipative solitons and switching waves in dispersion folded Kerr cavities
Miles H. Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin +3
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose integrated dispersion exceeds the…
Prediction and manipulation of hydrodynamic rogue waves via nonlinear spectral engineering
Alexey Tikan, Felicien Bonnefoy, Giacomo Roberti +10
Peregrine soliton (PS) is widely regarded as a prototype nonlinear structure capturing properties of rogue waves that emerge in the nonlinear propagation of unidirectional wave tra…
Nonlinear dispersion relation in integrable turbulence
Alexey Tikan, Felicien Bonnefoy, Guillaume Ducrozet +7
The concept of Nonlinear dispersion relation (NDR) is used in various fields of Physics (nonlinear optics, hydrodynamics, hydroelasticity, mechanics, quantum optics, plasma physics…
Dissipative structures in topological lattices of nonlinear optical resonators
Aleksandr Tusnin, Alexey Tikan, Kenichi Komagata +1
We theoretically study the dynamics and spatio-temporal pattern formation of driven lattices of nonlinear optical microresonators and analyze the formation of dissipative structure…
Dissipative Kerr solitons in a photonic dimer on both sides of exceptional point
Kenichi Komagata, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin +4
Exceptional points are a ubiquitous concept widely present in driven-dissipative coupled systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. It is characterized by the degeneracy of…
Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators
Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Johann Riemensberger +6
The driven-dissipative photonic dimer comprised of two evanescently coupled high-Q microresonators is a fundamental element of multimode soliton lattices. It has demonstrated a var…
Nonlinear spectral synthesis of soliton gas in deep-water surface gravity waves
Pierre Suret, Alexey Tikan, Félicien Bonnefoy +9
Soliton gases represent large random soliton ensembles in physical systems that display integrable dynamics at the leading order. Despite significant theoretical developments and o…
Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in a Driven Dissipative Photonic Dimer
Alexey Tikan, Johann Riemensberger, Kenichi Komagata +8
Emergent phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and refer to spatial, temporal, or spatiotemporal pattern formation in complex nonlinear systems driven out of equilibrium that is not c…
Nonlinear states and dynamics in a synthetic frequency dimension
Aleksandr K. Tusnin, Alexey M. Tikan, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Recent advances in the study of synthetic dimensions revealed a possibility to employ the frequency space as an additional degree of freedom which allows for investigating and expl…
From modulational instability to focusing dam breaks in water waves
Félicien Bonnefoy, Alexey Tikan, François Copie +8
We report water wave experiments performed in a long tank where we consider the evolution of nonlinear deep-water surface gravity waves with the envelope in the form of a large-sca…
Effect of local Peregrine soliton emergence on statistics of random waves in the 1-D focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Alexey Tikan
The Peregrine soliton is often considered as a prototype of the rogue waves. After recent advances in the semi-classical limit of the 1-D focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equat…
Phase and Amplitude single-shot measurement by using heterodyne time-lens and ultrafast digital time-holography
Alexey Tikan, Serge Bielawski, Christophe Szwaj +2
Temporal imaging systems are outstanding tools for single-shot observation of optical signals that have irregular and ultrafast dynamics. They allow long time windows to be recorde…
Spontaneous emergence of rogue waves in partially coherent waves: a quantitative experimental comparison between hydrodynamics and optics
Rebecca El Koussaifi, Alexey Tikan, Alessandro Toffoli +3
Rogue waves are extreme and rare fluctuations of the wave field that have been discussed in many physical systems. Their presence substantially influences the statistical propertie…
Universal Peregrine soliton structure in nonlinear pulse compression in optical fiber
A. Tikan, C. Billet, G. El +8
We present experimental evidence of the universal emergence of the Peregrine soliton predicted in the semi-classical (zero-dispersion) limit of the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger e…
Direct observation of Rogue Waves in optical turbulence using Time Microscopy
Pierre Suret, Rebecca El Koussaifi, Alexey Tikan +4
The formation of coherent structures in noise driven phenomena and in Turbulence is a complex and fundamental question. A particulary important structure is the so-called Rogue Wav…