Spatio-temporal breather dynamics in microcomb soliton crystals

Futai Hu; Abhinav Kumar Vinod; Wenting Wang; Hsiao-Hsuan Chin; James F. McMillan; Ziyu Zhan; Yuan Meng; Mali Gong; Chee Wei Wong

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01573-4

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Spatio-temporal breather dynamics in microcomb soliton crystals

Original Articles

- Spatio-temporal breather dynamics in microcomb soliton crystals
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 11, Pages: 2620-2633(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Fang Lu Mesoscopic Optics and Quantum Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  2.State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Author bio：
  
  Futai Hu (phyhft@gmail.com)
  Abhinav Kumar Vinod (abhinavkumar@ucla.edu)
  Chee Wei Wong (cheewei.wong@ucla.edu)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01573-4
  CLC：
- Received：13 December 2023，
  
  Revised：03 August 2024，
  
  Accepted：2024-08-11，
  
  Published Online：12 September 2024，
  
  Published：30 November 2024
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Hu, F. T. et al. Spatio-temporal breather dynamics in microcomb soliton crystals. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 2620-2633 (2024).
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Hu, F. T. et al. Spatio-temporal breather dynamics in microcomb soliton crystals. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 2620-2633 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01573-4.

摘要

Abstract

Solitons

the distinct balance between nonlinearity and dispersion

provide a route toward ultrafast electromagnetic pulse shaping

high-harmonic generation

real-time image processing

and RF photonic communications. Here we uniquely explore and observe the spatio-temporal breather dynamics of optical soliton crystals in frequency microcombs

examining spatial breathers

chaos transitions

and dynamical deterministic switching – in nonlinear measurements and theory. To understand the breather solitons

we describe their dynamical routes and two example transitional maps of the ensemble spatial breathers

with and without chaos initiation. We elucidate the physical mechanisms of the breather dynamics in the soliton crystal microcombs

in the interaction plane limit cycles and in the domain-wall understanding with parity symmetry breaking from third-order dispersion. We present maps of the accessible nonlinear regions

the breather frequency dependences on third-order dispersion and avoided-mode crossing strengths

and the transition between the collective breather spatio-temporal states. Our range of measurements matches well with our first-principles theory and nonlinear modeling. To image these soliton ensembles and their breathers

we further constructed panoramic temporal imaging for simultaneous fast- and slow-axis two-dimensional mapping of the breathers. In the phase-differential sampling

we present two-dimensional evolution maps of soliton crystal breathers

including with defects

in both stable breathers and breathers with drift. Our fundamental studies contribute to the understanding of nonlinear dynamics in soliton crystal complexes

their spatio-temporal dependences

and their stability-existence zones.

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