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Perfect soliton crystals in optical microresonators

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Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Hairun Guo, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Wenle Weng
2019

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We demonstrate the existence of perfect soliton crystal states and develop the deterministic procedure for their excitation in Si3N4 microresonators. We show that despite exceptional symmetrical properties, their behavior is strongly linked to the chaotic regimes of the microresonator. (C) 2019 The Author(s)

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