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most citedExperimental observations of bright dissipative Kerr cavity solitons and their collapsed snaking in a driven resonator with normal dispersion

62 citations · 98 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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physics.optics2026

Raman suppression in nanophotonics enabled by multimode spectral filtering

Yunxiang Song, Jinsheng Lu, Xinrui Zhu +7

Miniaturized photonic cavities generating nonlinear optical states of light are central to telecommunications and metrology applications. The emergence of such states is primarily…

physics.optics2026

Self-aligned optical microcomb emerging between octave separated lasers

Grégory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Jordan Stone +11

Optical frequency combs (OFCs) are frequency rulers essential for precision metrology, next generation navigation, and testing of fundamental physics. Despite intense efforts, chip…

physics.optics2025★ 1 cited

High-efficiency and broadband coherent optical comb generation in integrated X-cut lithium niobate microresonators

Yunxiang Song, Zongda Li, Xinrui Zhu +3

The ability to generate efficient and coherent frequency combs using photonic integrated circuits offers tremendous potential for a range of applications. In particular, "microcomb…

physics.optics2025

Soliton self-excitation under pulsed driving in a Kerr resonator

Matthew Macnaughtan, Zongda Li, Yiqing Xu +5

We present a novel regime of cavity soliton excitation in a Kerr resonator driven by a train of desynchronised pulses. In this regime, the soliton solution is shown to be the sole…

physics.optics2024

Continuous wave driving elucidates the desynchronisation dynamics of ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons generated in dispersive Kerr resonators

Zongda Li, Yiqing Xu, Stéphane Coen +2

Phase-coherent pulsed driving of passive optical fiber resonators enable the generation of ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons with durations well below 100~fs. The existence and…

physics.optics2023★ 22 cited

Random number generation using spontaneous symmetry breaking in a Kerr resonator

Liam Quinn, Gang Xu, Yiqing Xu +5

We experimentally demonstrate an all-optical random number generator based on spontaneous symmetry breaking in a coherently-driven Kerr resonator. Random bit sequences are generate…

physics.optics2022★ 4 cited

Ultrashort dissipative Raman solitons in Kerr resonators driven with phase-coherent optical pulses

Zongda Li, Yiqing Xu, Sophie Shamailov +7

External driving of passive, nonlinear optical resonators has emerged over the past decade as a novel route for the generation of ultrashort optical pulses and corresponding broadb…

physics.optics2022★ 9 cited

Dynamics of temporal Kerr cavity solitons in the presence of rapid parameter inhomogeneities: from bichromatic driving to third-order dispersion

Caleb Todd, Zongda Li, Stéphane Coen +3

Temporal Kerr cavity solitons are pulses of light that can persist in coherently-driven, dispersive resonators with Kerr-type nonlinearity. It is widely accepted that such solitons…

physics.optics2021

Observations of Existence and Instability Dynamics of Near-Zero-Dispersion Temporal Kerr Cavity Solitons

Zongda Li, Yiqing Xu, Caleb Todd +4

Dissipative Kerr cavity solitons (CSs) are persisting pulses of light that manifest themselves in driven optical resonators and that have attracted significant attention over the l…

physics.optics2020★ 62 cited

Experimental observations of bright dissipative Kerr cavity solitons and their collapsed snaking in a driven resonator with normal dispersion

Zongda Li, Stéphane Coen, Stuart G. Murdoch +1

Driven Kerr nonlinear optical resonators can sustain localized structures known as dissipative Kerr cavity solitons, which have recently attracted significant attention as the temp…