Ultrashort Raman Solitons in Externally Driven Resonators

The Many Beacon’s first flagship project will explore and harness a recently discovered ultrashort pulse generation scheme. It’s an exciting development amid an increasing drive for precision spectroscopy and laser micromachining. DWC researchers have produced “Raman solitons” with durations well below 100 femtoseconds. These are the shortest-ever pulses generated in resonators (active or passive) made from a single commercially available optical fibre and could potentially be transferred into a chip-scale format.