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Chipscale soliton microcombs

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Dissipative Kerr soliton generation at 2μm in a silicon nitride microresonator

Nonlinear optical diode effect in a magnetic Weyl semimetal

Emergent nonlinear dynamics in photonic lattices

Silicon nitride electric-field poled microresonator modulator

Linear and nonlinear applications of miniaturized silicon nitride microresonators

Hybrid lithium niobate-on-silicon nitride platform for mid-IR supercontinuum generation

Photonic assembly tunable via the pockels effect and method for use in frequency-modulated lidar

Nonlinear Integrated Photonics for Ranging Applications

A chip-scale second-harmonic source via self-injection-locked all-optical poling

Sub-kHz-Linewidth External-Cavity Laser (ECL) With Si3N4 Resonator Used as a Tunable Pump for a Kerr Frequency Comb

Ultrafast tunable lasers using lithium niobate integrated photonics

Dissipative Solitons and Switching Waves in Dispersion-Modulated Kerr Cavities

Non-Gaussian superradiant transition via three-body ultrastrong coupling

Progress and prospects in nonlinear extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray optics and spectroscopy

Two statistical regimes in the transition to filamentation

A photonic integrated circuit-based erbium-doped amplifier

Dual chirped microcomb based parallel ranging at megapixel-line rates

Single-Mode Emission in InP Microdisks on Si Using Au Antenna

Sensitivity and spectral control of network lasers

A photonic integrated continuous-travelling-wave parametric amplifier