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Temporal cavity solitons

Buffering optical data

Nature Photonics volume 4, pages 415–417 (2010)Cite this article

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Packets of light persisting in a continuously driven nonlinear resonator in the time domain offer new possibilities not only for applications in all-optical storage, pulse reshaping and wavelength conversion, but also for fundamental experiments in nonlinear science.

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Firth, W. Buffering optical data. Nature Photon 4, 415–417 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.142

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