Dirac solitons in optical microresonators

Heming Wang; Yu-Kun Lu; Lue Wu; Dong Yoon Oh; Boqiang Shen; Seung Hoon Lee; Kerry Vahala

doi:10.1038/s41377-020-00438-w

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Dirac solitons in optical microresonators

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- Dirac solitons in optical microresonators
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 9, Issue 6, Pages: 2020-2034(2020)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.T. J. Watson Laboratory of Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
  2.Present address: Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
  3.Present address: Rockley Photonics Inc., Pasadena, CA, USA
  4.Present address: Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA
- Author bio：
  
  Kerry Vahala (vahala@caltech.edu)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-020-00438-w
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- Published：2020，
  
  Published Online：23 December 2020，
  
  Received：13 August 2020，
  
  Revised：16 November 2020，
  
  Accepted：18 November 2020
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Wang, H. M. et al. Dirac solitons in optical microresonators. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 2020-2034 (2020).
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Wang, H. M. et al. Dirac solitons in optical microresonators. Light: Science & Applications, 9, 2020-2034 (2020). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-020-00438-w.

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Abstract

Mode-coupling-induced dispersion has been used to engineer microresonators for soliton generation at the edge of the visible band. Here

we show that the optical soliton formed in this way is analogous to optical Bragg solitons and

more generally

to the Dirac soliton in quantum field theory. This optical Dirac soliton is studied theoretically

and a closed-form solution is derived in the corresponding conservative system. Both analytical and numerical solutions show unusual properties

such as polarization twisting and asymmetrical optical spectra. The closed-form solution is also used to study the repetition rate shift in the soliton. An observation of the asymmetrical spectrum is analysed using theory. The properties of Dirac optical solitons in microresonators are important at a fundamental level and provide a road map for soliton microcomb generation in the visible band.

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