The generation and manipulation of cavity solitons in microresonators is creating new opportunities for Kerr combs to aid applications such as optical communications and spectroscopy.
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Weiner, A. Cavity solitons come of age. Nature Photon 11, 533–535 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2017.149
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