Breathing dissipative solitons in optical microresonators

Dissipative Kerr solitons enable optical frequency comb generation in microresonators, but these solitons can undergo a breathing transition which impacts the stability of such microcombs. Here, Lucas et al. deterministically induce soliton breathing and directly observe the spatiotemporal dynamics.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: E. Lucas, M. Karpov, H. Guo, M. L. Gorodetsky, T. J. Kippenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00719-w