Breather soliton dynamics in microresonators

Mengjie Yu; Jae K. Jang; Yoshitomo Okawachi; Austin G. Griffith; Kevin Luke; Steven A. Miller; Xingchen Ji; Michal Lipson; Alexander L. Gaeta

doi:10.1038/ncomms14569

Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Breather soliton dynamics in microresonators

Mengjie Yu,
Jae K. Jang,
Yoshitomo Okawachi,
Austin G. Griffith,
Kevin Luke,
Steven A. Miller,
Xingchen Ji,
Michal Lipson,
Alexander L. Gaeta

Affiliations

Mengjie Yu: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Jae K. Jang: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Yoshitomo Okawachi: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University
Austin G. Griffith: School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Kevin Luke: School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University
Steven A. Miller: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Xingchen Ji: School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Michal Lipson: Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
Alexander L. Gaeta: Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Columbia University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14569
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

Read online

Breather solitons can be found in both physical and biological nonlinear systems. Here, Yuet al. demonstrate this type of soliton in silicon and silicon nitride microresonators, which advances the understanding of soliton-based comb-generation in microresonators.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal