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Probing the Formation of Nonlinear Optical States with Free Electrons

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

Combining nonlinear integrated photonics with electron microscopy, we probe the formation of optical dissipative structures in Si3N4 microresonators with free electrons and find unique spectral fingerprints in the electron spectrum that enable new electron ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Free-electron interaction with nonlinear optical states in microresonators

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

The short de Broglie wavelength and strong interaction empower free electrons to probe structures and excitations in materials and biomolecules. Recently, electron-photon interactions have enabled new optical manipulation schemes for electron beams. In thi ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2024

Voltage-tunable optical parametric oscillator with an alternating dispersion dimer integrated on a chip

Tobias Kippenberg, Anton Stroganov, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Optical parametric oscillators enable the conversion of pump light to new frequency bands using nonlinear optical processes. Recent advances in integrated nonlinear photonics have led to the creation of compact, chip-scale sources via Kerr-nonlinearity-ind ...

Optica Publishing Group2023

Edge state optical frequency combs in the microresonator based Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

Tobias Kippenberg, Xinru Ji, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

We demonstrate the first observation of optical frequency combs at the edge state of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model. We show soliton-induced edge-bulk interaction and edge-state hopping. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Dispersion engineering with coupled microresonators for extended soliton microcomb control

Tobias Kippenberg, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

We investigate coupled-resonator dispersion engineering capabilities for con-trolling the shape of the soliton microcomb in real time. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Quiet point engineering for low-noise microwave generation with soliton microcombs

Tobias Kippenberg, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

In this work, we employ the avoided mode crossing engineering in microresonators for the ultra-low noise microwave generation with dissipative Kerr solitons. ...

Optical Society of America2023

Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Miles Henry Anderson, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Alisa Davydova

We theoretically and experimentally investigate the formation of dissipative coherent structures in Kerr nonlinear optical microresonators, whose spectrum encompasses an integrated dispersion that exceeds the cavity free-spectral range. We are able to acce ...

American Physical Society2023

Nonlinear dynamics and Kerr frequency comb formation in lattices of coupled microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Recently, substantial progress has been made in the understanding of microresonators frequency combs based on dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs). However, most of the studies have focused on the single-resonator level. Coupled resonator systems can open new ...

Nature Portfolio2023

Free Electron Interaction with Nonlinear Optical States

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Arslan Sajid Raja, Guanhao Huang, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin, Zheru Qiu, Yujia Yang

We couple free electrons with nonlinear optical states and frequency combs in photonic chip-based microresonators. Intracavity nonlinear dissipative structures including optical solitons imprint unique fingerprints in electron spectra and their Ramsey inte ...

Optical Society of America2023

Nonlinear dispersion relation in integrable turbulence

Alexey Tikan

We investigate numerically and experimentally the concept of nonlinear dispersion relation (NDR) in the context of partially coherent waves propagating in a one-dimensional water tank. The nonlinear random waves have a narrow-bandwidth Fourier spectrum and ...

Nature Portfolio2022

Protected generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in supermodes of coupled optical microresonators

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Junqiu Liu, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

A photonic dimer composed of two evanescently coupled high-Q microresonators is a fundamental element of multimode soliton lattices. It has demonstrated a variety of emergent nonlinear phenomena, including supermode soliton generation and soliton hopping. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Prediction and manipulation of hydrodynamic rogue waves via nonlinear spectral engineering

Alexey Tikan

The Peregrine soliton (PS) is widely regarded as a prototype nonlinear structure capturing properties of rogue waves that emerge in the nonlinear propagation of unidirectional wave trains. It has been recently demonstrated that the PS can emerge locally, a ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022

Zero dispersion Kerr solitons in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Miles Henry Anderson, Wenle Weng, Alexey Tikan

Solitons are shape preserving waveforms that are ubiquitous across nonlinear dynamical systems from BEC to hydrodynamics, and fall into two separate classes: bright solitons existing in anomalous group velocity dispersion, and switching waves forming 'dark ...

Nature Research2022

Emergent nonlinear phenomena in a driven dissipative photonic dimer

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Hairun Guo, Junqiu Liu, Mikhail Churaev, Alexey Tikan

Collective effects leading to spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal pattern formation in complex nonlinear systems driven out of equilibrium cannot be described at the single-particle level and are therefore often called emergent phenomena. They are characte ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Dissipative Kerr solitons in a photonic dimer on both sides of exceptional point

Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Hairun Guo, Mikhail Churaev, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

Exceptional points are a ubiquitous concept widely present in driven-dissipative coupled systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian. To date, exceptional points have been extensively examined in the systems supporting only a few optical modes, thereb ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Symmetry protection against mode crossings in multimode photonic resonator chains

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Junqiu Liu, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

The accessibility of solitons in driven-dissipative photonic dimers drastically varies for different supermode families. We explain the origin of this phenomenon and show its crucial influence on any soliton lattice configuration including topological arra ...

IEEE2021

Symmetry protection against mode crossings for dissipative Kerr soliton generation in microresonator chains

Rui Ning Wang, Tobias Kippenberg, Kenichi Komagata, Junqiu Liu, Mikhail Churaev, Xinru Ji, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

IEEE2021

Local Emergence of Peregrine Solitons: Experiments and Theory

Alexey Tikan

It has been shown analytically that Peregrine solitons emerge locally from a universal mechanism in the so-called semiclassical limit of the one-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. Experimentally, this limit corresponds to the strongly non ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2021

Collective dynamics in nonlinear resonators coupled in spatial and synthetic dimensions

Tobias Kippenberg, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

We theoretically investigate chaotic and stable structures in coupled-resonator chains and synthetic frequency dimension influenced by Kerr nonlinearity, thereby bringing insights in the emerging field of soliton generation in chains and lattices of high-Q ...

IEEE2021

Single-shot observation of breathers from noise-induced modulation instability using heterodyne temporal imaging

Alexey Tikan

We report phase and amplitude measurements of large coherent structures originating from the noise-induced modulation instability in optical fibers. By using a specifically designed time-lens system (SEAHORSE) in which aberrations are compensated, the comp ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2021