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Tapered Fibre Fabry-Pérot Cavities for the Generation of Near-Visible, Phase-locked, and Broadband Kerr Frequency Combs
Matthew Macnaughtan, Yiqing Xu, Miro Erkintalo +2
We demonstrate the generation of near-visible, broadband Kerr frequency combs using a tapered fibre Fabry-Pérot resonator. By incorporating micron-diameter tapered silica fibre int…
All-optical Synchronization of Breather Solitons in a Kerr Microresonator
Wang Liao, Stuart G. Murdoch, Stephane Coen +3
Microresonator Kerr solitons are promising candidates for the realization of miniaturized on-chip optical frequency combs. For specific system parameters, these solitons are associ…
Temporal dissipative solitons and optical frequency combs in coherently driven Kerr resonators
Stuart G. Murdoch, François Leo, Xiaoxiao Xue +2
Kerr frequency combs have recently emerged as an exciting new photonic technology, with applications across science and engineering. Their formation within driven optical resonator…
Spectral tailoring of Raman soliton generation via a dispersion-managed fibre Fabry-Pérot resonator
Yiqing Xu, Stuart G. Murdoch, Stéphane Coen +1
Dissipative Raman solitons in passive Kerr resonators have emerged as a promising route to broadband coherent frequency comb generation. Yet, their centre frequency has so far been…
Quantum and classical noise characteristics of parametrically driven cavity solitons in dispersive Kerr resonators
Sophie S. Shamailov, Miro Erkintalo
Temporal cavity solitons generated in monochromatically driven dispersive Kerr resonators offer an attractive avenue for on-chip optical frequency comb generation. Key to many of t…
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…
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…
Multi-peak vector soliton families in defocusing Kerr resonators
Pengxiang Wang, Carlos Mas-Arabi, Gian-Luca Oppo +6
We report the existence of multi-peaked vector soliton families in normally dispersive passive Kerr resonators. Through cross-phase modulation between two orthogonal polarization c…
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…
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…
Polarization faticons: Chiral localized structures in self-defocusing Kerr resonators
Erwan Lucas, Gang Xu, Pengxiang Wang +9
We report on numerical predictions and experimental observations of a novel type of temporal localized dissipative structures that manifest themselves in the self-defocusing regime…
Coherent Ising Machine Based on Polarization Symmetry Breaking in a Driven Kerr Resonator
Liam Quinn, Yiqing Xu, Julien Fatome +4
Time-multiplexed networks of degenerate optical parametric oscillators have demonstrated remarkable success in simulating coupled Ising spins, thus providing a promising route to s…
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…
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…
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…
Parametrically driven pure-Kerr temporal solitons in a chip-integrated microcavity
Grégory Moille, Miriam Leonhardt, David Paligora +5
The discovery that externally-driven nonlinear optical resonators can sustain ultrashort pulses corresponding to coherent optical frequency combs has enabled landmark advances in a…
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…
Nonlinear topological symmetry protection in a dissipative system
Stéphane Coen, Bruno Garbin, Gang Xu +6
We report an experimental and theoretical investigation of a system whose dynamics is dominated by an intricate interplay between three key concepts of modern physics: topology, no…
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…
Parametrically-driven temporal cavity solitons in a bichromatically-driven pure Kerr resonator
Miriam Leonhardt, David Paligora, Nicolas Englebert +3
Temporal cavity solitons (CSs) are pulses of light that can persist endlessly in dispersive, nonlinear optical resonators. They have been extensively studied in the context of reso…
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…
Bloch Oscillations of Driven Dissipative Solitons in a Synthetic Dimension
Nicolas Englebert, Nathan Goldman, Miro Erkintalo +4
The engineering of synthetic dimensions allows for the construction of fictitious lattice structures by coupling the discrete degrees of freedom of a physical system, such as the q…
Soliton linear-wave scattering in a Kerr microresonator
Pierce C. Qureshi, Vincent Ng, Farhan Azeem +5
The nonlinear scattering of a linear optical wave from a conservative soliton has been widely studied in optical fibers as a mechanism for nonlinear frequency conversion. Here we e…
Dual-microcomb generation in a synchronously-driven waveguide ring resonator
Yiqing Xu, Miro Erkintalo, Yi Lin +3
Microcombs -- optical frequency combs generated in coherently-driven nonlinear microresonators -- have attracted significant attention over the last decade. The ability to generate…