Grigory Lihachev, Wenle Weng, Junqiu Liu, Lin Chang, Joel Guo, Jijun He, Rui Ning Wang, Miles H Anderson, Yang Liu, John E Bowers, Tobias J Kippenberg
The past decade has witnessed major advances in the development and system-level applications of photonic integrated microcombs, that are coherent, broadband optical frequency combs with repetition rates in the millimeter-wave to terahertz domain. Most of these advances are based on harnessing of dissipative Kerr solitons (DKS) in microresonators with anomalous group velocity dispersion (GVD). However, microcombs can also be generated with normal GVD using localized structures that are referred to as dark pulses, switching waves or platicons...
April 1, 2022: Nature Communications