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.