Microresonator-based solitons for massively parallel coherent optical communications

Pablo Marin-Palomo1,†, Juned N. Kemal1,†, Maxim Karpov, Arne Kordts, Joerg Pfeifle, Martin H. P. Pfeiffer, Philipp Trocha, Stefan Wolf, Victor Bracsch, Ralf Rosenberger, Kovendhan Vijayan, Wolfgang Freude, Tobias J. Kippenberg, Christian Koos † P.M. and J.N.K contributed equally to these work * christian.koos@kit.edu * tobias.kippenberg@kit.edu 1 Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany 2 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland and 3 Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany

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