Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Imaging soliton dynamics in optical microcavities

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

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06031-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In order to study the dynamics of solitons in microresonators, which underlie nonlinear phenomena like Kerr comb generation, both high temporal resolution and long record times are needed. Here, the authors develop a coherent sampling method to directly image the temporal behavior of solitons.