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most citedVersatile Optical Frequency Division with Kerr-induced Synchronization at Tunable Microcomb Synthetic Dispersive Waves

26 citations · 59 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics2026

Frequency comb stability, bistability, and self-starting in normal dispersion microresonators

Logan Courtright, Alexey Sukhinin, Pradyoth Shandilya +3

Recent work has demonstrated that it is possible to generate frequency combs in normal dispersion microresonators by taking advantage of fabricated mode coupling that induces a mod…

physics.optics2026

Feedback-Controlled Self-Trapping of Solitons

Raonaqul Islam, Pradyoth Shandilya, Yunxiang Song +5

Chip-scale microresonator-based frequency combs, commonly referred to as microcombs, are promising sources for field-deployable metrology applications. However, intrinsic microreso…

nlin.PS2026

Fast Synergetic Simulation to Study Slow Evolution of Soliton Patterns in Optical Resonators

Sanzida Akter, Pradyoth Shandilya, Logan Courtright +4

Complex patterns in physical and biological systems often emerge through slow collective dynamics governed by a small number of key variables. In nonlinear optical resonators, diss…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Dispersive Waves and Multimode Squeezing in Pure-Kerr Parametrically Driven Cavity Solitons

Rafael Romero Mendez, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Samyak Gothi +4

Parametrically driven cavity solitons (PDCS), unlike single-pumped cavity solitons, are localized optical pulses arising from parametric processes. These cavity solitons, recently…

physics.optics2026

Dissipative Kerr Soliton Self-Balancing from Kerr-Induced Synchronization

Pradyoth Shandilya, Kartik Srinivasan, Curtis R. Menyuk +1

Integrated frequency comb sources are a key enabling technology for frequency metrology applications. Their on-chip integration promises to bring metrology capacity outside of the…

physics.optics2026

Universal Bright-Bright Integrated Soliton Molecule via Parametric Binding

Pradyoth Shandilya, Shao-Chien Ou, Alioune Niang +4

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) have emerged as the preferred solution for on-chip integrated optical frequency comb (OFC) generation in metrology. A multi-pumped DKS enables eith…

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

Toward Chaotic Group Velocity Hopping of an On-Chip Dissipative Kerr Soliton

Gregory Moille, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Pradyoth Shandilya +3

Chaos enables randomness-based applications, particularly in photonic systems. Integrated optical frequency combs (microcombs) have previously been observed in either chaotic modul…

nlin.PS2025★ 1 cited

Dynamics of interacting cavity solitons

Amir Leshem, Sanzida Akter, Logan Courtright +3

We derive the equations governing the motion of Kerr solitons in pair waveforms. Recent experiments in microresonators have studied a variety of interaction effects in multisoliton…

physics.optics2024

Multi-color solitons and frequency combs in microresonators

Curtis R. Menyuk, Pradyoth Shandilya, Logan Courtright +2

Multi-color solitons that are parametrically created in dual-pumped microresonators generate interleaved frequency combs that can be used to obtain combs at new frequencies and whe…

physics.optics2024★ 7 cited

On-Chip Parametric Synchronization of a Dissipative Kerr Soliton Microcomb

Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Miro Erkintalo +2

Synchronization of oscillators is ubiquitous in nature. Often, the synchronized oscillators couple directly, yet in some cases synchronization can arise from their parametric inter…

physics.optics2024★ 4 cited

All-Optical Azimuthal Trapping of Dissipative Kerr Multi-Solitons for Relative Noise Suppression

Pradyoth Shandilya, Shao-Chien Ou, Jordan Stone +4

Temporal cavity solitons, or dissipative Kerr solitons (DKS) in integrated microresonators, are essential for deployable metrology technologies. Such applications favor the lowest…

physics.optics2024★ 13 cited

All-Optical Noise Quenching of An Integrated Frequency Comb

Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Jordan Stone +2

Integrated frequency combs promise transformation of lab-based metrology into disruptive real-world applications. These microcombs are, however, sensitive to stochastic thermal flu…

physics.optics2024★ 26 cited

Versatile Optical Frequency Division with Kerr-induced Synchronization at Tunable Microcomb Synthetic Dispersive Waves

Gregory Moille, Pradyoth Shandilya, Alioune Niang +3

Kerr-induced synchronization (KIS) provides a new key tool for the control and stabilization of the repetition rate of a cavity soliton frequency comb. It enables direct external c…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

AC-Josephson Effect and Sub-Comb Mode-Locking in a Kerr-Induced Synchronized Cavity Soliton

Gregory Moille, Usman A. Javid, Michal Chojnacky +3

Kerr-induced synchronization (KIS) [1] involves the capture of a dissipative Kerr soliton (DKS) microcomb [2] tooth by a reference laser injected into the DKS resonator. This phase…

physics.optics2023★ 6 cited

Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Mixing Between a Dissipative Kerr Soliton and Continuous Waves for a Higher-Dimension Frequency Comb

Gregory Moille, Christy Li, Jordan Stone +6

Dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) intrinsically exhibit two degrees of freedom through their group and phase rotation velocity. Periodic extraction of the DKS into a waveguide produ…