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most citedParametrically driven Kerr cavity solitons

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34 papers

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

Topological Soliton Frequency Comb in Nanophotonic Lithium Niobate

Nicolas Englebert, Robert M. Gray, Luis Ledezma +6

Frequency combs have revolutionized metrology, ranging, and optical clocks, which have motivated substantial efforts on the development of chip-scale comb sources. The on-chip comb…

nlin.CD2025★ 7 cited

Bistable soliton optical frequency combs in a second harmonic generation Kerr cavity

Francesco Rinaldo Talenti, Stefan Wabnitz, Yifan Sun +8

We study the dynamics and stability of soliton optical frequency comb generation in a dissipative, coherently pumped cavity with both second and third-order nonlinearity. Cavity sw…

physics.optics2024

Light tailored by multimode fiber for multiphoton fluorescence microscopy

Raphael Jauberteau, Alessandro Tonello, Yifan Sun +8

We study the diffraction of a particular class of beams, composed only by a combination of azimuthally invariant guided modes of an optical fiber. We demonstrate that such beams ca…

nlin.PS2024

Implications of tristability on localization phenomena: a necking bifurcation's tale

Edem Kossi Akakpo, Marc Haelterman, Francois Leo +1

We analyze the implication of tristability on localization phenomena in one-dimensional extended dissipative systems. In this context, localized states appear due to the interactio…

physics.optics2024

Multidimensional localized states in externally driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic spatiotemporal potential: a dimensional connection

Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Fabio Mangini +1

In this work, we study the bifurcation structures and the stability of multidimensional localized states within coherently driven Kerr optical cavities with parabolic potentials in…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Multimode resonance transition to collapsed snaking in normal dispersion Kerr resonators: Bright versus dark solitons

Yifan Sun, Stefan Wabnitz, Pedro Parra-Rivas

We study the dynamics of Kerr cavity solitons in the normal dispersion regime, in the presence of an intracavity phase modulation. The associated parabolic potential introduces mul…

nlin.PS2023

Dissipative solitons characterization in singly resonant optical parametric oscillators: a variational formalism

Pedro Parra-Rivas

In this work, the emergence of single-peak temporal dissipative solitons in singly-resonant degenerate optical parametric oscillators is investigated analytically. Applying the Kan…

nlin.PS2023

Pure quartic three-dimensional spatiotemporal Kerr solitons

Pedro Parra-Rivas, Yifan Sun, Fabio Mangini +3

We analyze the formation of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in waveguides with a parabolic refractive index profile and pure quartic chromatic dispersion. We show, by app…

physics.optics2023★ 1 cited

Nonlinear dynamics of dissipative structures in coherently-driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic potential

Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Mario Ferraro +2

By means of a modified Lugiato-Lefever equation model, we investigate the nonlinear dynamics of dissipative wave structures in coherently-driven Kerr cavities with a parabolic pote…

nlin.PS2023★ 15 cited

Dynamics of three-dimensional spatiotemporal solitons in multimode waveguides

Pedro Parra-Rivas, Yifan Sun, Stefan Wabnitz

In this work, we present a detailed study of the dynamics and stability of fundamental spatiotemporal solitons emerging in multimode waveguides with a parabolic transverse profile…

nlin.PS2023★ 5 cited

Emergence of collapsed snaking related dark and bright Kerr dissipative solitons with quartic-quadratic dispersion

Edem Kossi Akakpo, Marc Haelterman, Francois Leo +1

We theoretically investigate the dynamics, bifurcation structure and stability of dark localized states emerging in Kerr cavities in the presence of second- and fourth-order disper…

physics.optics2022★ 22 cited

Robust three-dimensional high-order solitons and breathers in driven dissipative systems: a Kerr cavity realization

Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Carles Milian +7

We present a general approach to excite robust dissipative three-dimensional and high-order solitons and breathers in passively driven nonlinear cavities. Our findings are illustra…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Spatiotemporal mode decomposition of ultrashort pulses propagating in graded-index multimode fibers

Mario Zitelli, Vincent Couderc, Mario Ferraro +4

We develop a spatiotemporal mode decomposition technique to study the mode power distribution of ultrashort pulses emerging from long spans of graded-index multimode fiber, for dif…

physics.optics2022★ 8 cited

Depletion-limited Kerr solitons in singly-resonant optical parametric oscillators

Carlos Mas Arabi, Nicolas Englebert, Pedro Parra-Rivas +2

We analyze the impact of pump depletion in the generation of cavity solitons in a singly-resonant parametrical oscillator that includes a nonlinear section. We find an an…

nlin.PS2022★ 12 cited

Transitions between dissipative localized structures in the simplified Gilad-Meron model for dryland plant ecology

Fahad Al Saadi, Pedro Parra-Rivas

Spatially extended patterns and multistability of possible different states is common in many ecosystems, and their combination has an important impact on their dynamical behaviour…

physics.optics2022

Modeling of dual frequency combs and bistable solitons in third-harmonic generation

T. Hansson, P. Parra-Rivas, S. Wabnitz

Phase-matching of the third-harmonic generation process can be used to extend the emission of radiation from Kerr microresonators into new spectral regions far from the pump wavele…

physics.optics2022★ 26 cited

Dissipative Kerr solitons, breathers and chimera states in coherently driven passive cavities with parabolic potential

Yifan Sun, Pedro Parra-Rivas, Mario Ferraro +5

We analyze the stability and dynamics of dissipative Kerr solitons in the presence of a parabolic potential. This potential stabilizes oscillatory and chaotic regimes, favoring the…

nlin.PS2022★ 38 cited

Quartic Kerr cavity combs: Bright and dark solitons

Pedro Parra-Rivas, Sabrina Hetzel, Yaroslav V. Kartashov +4

We theoretically investigate the dynamics, bifurcation structure and stability of localized states in Kerr cavities driven at the pure fourth-order dispersion point. Both the norma…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Neuron-like spiking dynamics in the asymmetrically-driven dissipative photonic Bose-Hubbard dimer

Jesús Yelo-Sarrión, Francois Leo, Simon-Pierre Gorza +1

We demonstrate neuron-like spiking dynamics in the asymmetrically driven dissipative photonic Bose-Hubbard dimmer model which describes two coupled nonlinear passive Kerr cavities.…

physics.optics2022★ 30 cited

Multimode soliton collisions in graded-index optical fibers

Yifan Sun, Mario Zitelli, Mario Ferraro +3

In this work, we unveil the unique complex dynamics of multimode soliton interactions in graded-index optical fibers through simulations and experiments. By generating two multimod…

nlin.PS2022★ 6 cited

Self-pulsing and chaos in the asymmetrically-driven dissipative photonic Bose-Hubbard dimer: A bifurcation analysis

Jesús Yelo Sarrión, François Leo, Simon-Pierre Gorza +1

We perform a systematic study of the temporal dynamics emerging in the asymmetrically driven dissipative Bose-Hubbard dimer model. This model successfully describes the nonlinear d…

physics.optics2022★ 5 cited

Mode-locking induced by coherent driving in fiber lasers

Carlos Mas Arabí, Nicolas Englebert, Pedro Parra-Rivas +2

The generation of stable short optical pulses in mode-locked lasers is of tremendous importance for many applications. Mode-locking is a broad concept that encompasses different pr…

physics.optics2021★ 14 cited

Dark quadratic localized states and collapsed snaking in doubly resonant dispersive cavity enhanced second harmonic generation

P. Parra-Rivas, C. Mas Arabí, F. Leo

We theoretically investigate the dynamics, bifurcation structure and stability of quadratic dark localized dissipative states arising in cavity enhanced second-harmonic generation.…

nlin.PS2021

Dissipative localized states and breathers in phase mismatched singly resonant optical parametric oscillators: Bifurcation structure and stability

P. Parra-Rivas, C. Mas Arabí, F. Leo

We study the emergence of dissipative localized states in phase mismatched singly resonant optical parametric oscillators. These states arise in two different bistable configuratio…