Colliding solitons in optical microresonators to reveal important fundamental physics

Friday, April 24, 2020 - 08:11 in Physics & Chemistry

Solitons are self-reinforcing particle-like wave packets enabled by the balance between dispersion and nonlinearity. Occurring in hydrodynamics, lasers, cold atoms, and plasmas, solitons are generated when a laser field is confined in a circular resonator with ultra-low loss, which produces multiple solitons travelling around the resonator.

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