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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yang, Qi-Fan
• Yi, Xu
• Yang, Ki Youl
• Vahala, Kerry

Titel

Stokes solitons in optical microcavities

Ist Teil von

• Nature physics, 2017-01, Vol.13 (1), p.53-57

Ort / Verlag

London: Nature Publishing Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Solitons are wave packets that resist dispersion through a self-induced potential well. They are studied in many fields, but are especially well known in optics on account of the relative ease of their formation and control in optical bre waveguides1,2. Besides their many interesting properties, solitons are important to optical continuum generation3, in mode-locked lasers4,5, and have been considered as a natural way to convey data over great distances6. Recently, solitons have been realized in microcavities7, thereby bringing the power of microfabrication methods to future applications. This work reports a soliton not previously observed in optical systems, the Stokes soliton. The Stokes soliton forms and regenerates by optimizing its Raman interaction in space and time within an optical potential well shared with another soliton. The Stokes and the initial soliton belong to distinct transverse mode families and benet from a form of soliton trapping that is new to microcavities and soliton lasers in general. The discovery of a new optical soliton can impact work in other areas of photonics, including nonlinear optics and spectroscopy.