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Cavity solitons come of age

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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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Figure 1: Microresonators.
Figure 2: Formation of cavity solitons.

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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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