Zero dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Here, the authors find the missing link for soliton microcombs that exist at the boundary where the group velocity dispersion of light changes sign: zero-dispersion solitons. The resulting microresonator frequency comb, based in Si3N4, spans almost an octave.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Miles H. Anderson, Wenle Weng, Grigory Lihachev, Alexey Tikan, Junqiu Liu, Tobias J. Kippenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31916-x