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In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Laser cavity-solitons can appear in a microresonator-filtered laser when judiciously balancing the slow nonlinearities of the system. Under certain conditions, such optical states can be made to self-emerge and recover spontaneously, and the understanding of their robustness is critical for practical applications.
Here, we study the formation of a bonded state comprising a soliton and a blue-detuned continuous wave, whose coexistence is mediated by dispersion in the nonlinear refractive index. Nonlinear dissipative structures are striking formations occurring in dynamical systems that are far from equilibrium 1.
Basic formations like dissipative solitons balance wave dispersion and nonlinear focusing together with gain and loss 2 , 3. These structures are ubiquitous in many fields, from chemistry 4 and physics to biology 5.
Understanding their real-time, dynamic evolution is fundamental to advancing our knowledge of complex nonlinear and out-of-equilibrium systems, and is thus critical to developing next-generation optical sources. While passive mode-locking remains the most established technology for pulsed lasers 2 , 3 , recent advances have witnessed a myriad of different approaches for broadband optical generation.
