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    Here, Chemnitz et al. report experimental evidence for hybrid solitons – a type of solitary wave, which emerges as a result of a strong non-instantaneous nonlinear response in CS2-filled liquid-core optical fibres, demonstrating efficient soliton-driven supercontinuum generation.

    • Mario Chemnitz
    • , Martin Gebhardt
    •  & Markus A. Schmidt

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    | Open Access

    Dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators have recently been shown to generate frequency combs via Cherenkov radiation. Here, Yiet al. demonstrate hysteresis behaviour and a single-mode dispersive wave that can improve the stability of microcombs.

    • Xu Yi
    • , Qi-Fan Yang
    •  & Kerry Vahala

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    | Open Access

    Breather solitons can be found in both physical and biological nonlinear systems. Here, Yuet al. demonstrate this type of soliton in silicon and silicon nitride microresonators, which advances the understanding of soliton-based comb-generation in microresonators.

    • Mengjie Yu
    • , Jae K. Jang
    •  & Alexander L. Gaeta

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    | Open Access

    Nematic liquid crystals are frequently used as a reconfigurable material to control light propagation and as a nonlinear medium supporting solitons. Here, the authors demonstrate steering of such solitons in bulk nematic liquid crystals without lateral anchoring by external magnetic fields.

    • Yana Izdebskaya
    • , Vladlen Shvedov
    •  & Wieslaw Krolikowski

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    A rogue wave is an unexpected oscillation of large amplitude and is an example of the spontaneous formation of a coherent structure out of disorder. Here, the authors develop an experimental strategy that can provide snapshots in time and thus record the real shape of optical rogue waves emerging from random noise.

    • Pierre Suret
    • , Rebecca El Koussaifi
    •  & Serge Bielawski

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    | Open Access

    Optical solitons are pulses that propagate undistorted. Here, the authors demonstrate a class of soliton arising from the interaction of self-phase modulation with quartic dispersion, rather than with quadratic dispersion as occurs in conventional solitons.

    • Andrea Blanco-Redondo
    • , C. Martijn de Sterke
    •  & Chad Husko

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    | Open Access

    Injecting spin-polarized current into a ferromagnetic thin film via a nanocontact is expected to generate a radially-symmetric spin wave soliton. Here, the authors use time-resolved x-ray microscopy and micromagnetic simulations to demonstrate the occurrence of p-like symmetry associated with non-uniform magnetic fields in the nanocontact region.

    • S. Bonetti
    • , R. Kukreja
    •  & H. A. Dürr

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    | Open Access

    Harnessing nonlinear optics in optoelectronic devices requires a platform that exhibits both giant optical nonlinearity and is compatible with photonic-circuit fabrication. Here, the authors demonstrate such a system that uses strong light–matter coupling between waveguide photons and quantum-well excitons.

    • P. M. Walker
    • , L. Tinkler
    •  & D. N. Krizhanovskii

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    Optical tweezing typically refers to the trapping and manipulation of particles using lasers. Here, Jang et al. demonstrate analogous manipulation of ultrashort cavity soliton-pulses in the time domain, trapped by the phase modulation of a continuous wave laser beam, and moved by modifying the phase profile.

    • Jae K. Jang
    • , Miro Erkintalo
    •  & Stuart G. Murdoch

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    In nonlinear optical systems, self-localized bistable packets of light exist as controllable intensity pulses in the longitudinal or transverse dimension. Here, Garbin et al. experimentally demonstrate the existence of localized longitudinal states existing in the phase of laser light.

    • Bruno Garbin
    • , Julien Javaloyes
    •  & Stéphane Barland

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    Stimulated Raman scattering limits the energy of dissipative solitons by converting excess energy into noisy Raman pulses. Using delay compensation, Babin et al. demonstrate that these noisy pulses can become coherent Raman dissipative solitons leading to the formation of multicolour bound dissipative soliton complexes.

    • Sergey A. Babin
    • , Evgeniy V. Podivilov
    •  & Alexander Apolonski

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    | Open Access

    Solitons are nonlinear waves important for fundamental studies of physical processes such as supercontinuum generation or rogue waves and for applications in metrology and optical communications. Here, Blanco-Redondo et al.demonstrate on-chip soliton compression in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide.

    • A. Blanco-Redondo
    • , C. Husko
    •  & B.J. Eggleton

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    | Open Access

    Cavity polaritons, arising from strong coupling between light and matter in semiconductor structures, exhibit interesting and exotic phenomena. Tanese et al. study a polariton condensate in a periodic one-dimensional microcavity and find gap soliton states, which may be useful for polaritonic circuits.

    • D. Tanese
    • , H. Flayac
    •  & J. Bloch

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    Solitons are waves, occurring in systems such as water channels and optical fibres that preserve their shape as they travel. Here the observation of solitons in multimode optical fibres offers a platform for studying spatiotemporal wave packets, and could allow high peak power transmission along with increased data rates in low-cost telecommunications.

    • W. H. Renninger
    •  & F. W. Wise

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