Dispersion-less Kerr solitons in spectrally confined optical cavities

Xiaoxiao Xue; Philippe Grelu; Bofan Yang; Mian Wang; Shangyuan Li; Xiaoping Zheng; Bingkun Zhou

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-01052-8

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Dispersion-less Kerr solitons in spectrally confined optical cavities

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- Dispersion-less Kerr solitons in spectrally confined optical cavities
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 12, Issue 1, Pages: 136-146(2023)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
  2.Laboratoire ICB, UMR 6303 CNRS, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 21000 Dijon, France
- Author bio：
  
  Xiaoxiao Xue (xuexx@tsinghua.edu.cn)
  Xiaoping Zheng (xpzheng@tsinghua.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-01052-8
  CLC：
- Published：31 January 2023，
  
  Published Online：9 January 2023，
  
  Received：10 July 2022，
  
  Revised：26 October 2022，
  
  Accepted：27 November 2022
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Xue, X. X. et al. Dispersion-less Kerr solitons in spectrally confined optical cavities. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 136-146 (2023).
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Xue, X. X. et al. Dispersion-less Kerr solitons in spectrally confined optical cavities. Light: Science & Applications, 12, 136-146 (2023). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-01052-8.

摘要

Abstract

Solitons are self-reinforcing localized wave packets that manifest in the major areas of nonlinear science

from optics to biology and Bose–Einstein condensates. Recently

optically driven dissipative solitons have attracted great attention for the implementation of the chip-scale frequency combs that are decisive for communications

spectroscopy

neural computing

and quantum information processing. In the current understanding

the generation of temporal solitons involves the chromatic dispersion as a key enabling physical effect

acting either globally or locally on the cavity dynamics in a decisive way. Here

we report on a novel class of solitons

both theoretically and experimentally

which builds up in spectrally confined optical cavities when dispersion is practically absent

both globally and locally. Precisely

the interplay between the Kerr nonlinearity and spectral filtering results in an infinite hierarchy of eigenfunctions which

combined with optical gain

allow for the generation of stable dispersion-less dissipative solitons in a previously unexplored regime. When the filter order tends to infinity

we find an unexpected link between dissipative and conservative solitons

in the form of Nyquist-pulse-like solitons endowed with an ultra-flat spectrum. In contrast to the conventional dispersion-enabled nonlinear Schrödinger solitons

these dispersion-less Nyquist solitons build on a fully confined spectrum and their energy scaling is not constrained by the pulse duration. Dispersion-less soliton molecules and their deterministic transitioning to single solitons are also evidenced. These findings broaden the fundamental scope of the dissipative soliton paradigm and open new avenues for generating soliton pulses and frequency combs endowed with unprecedented temporal and spectral features.

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