We demonstrate a new technique to passively stabilize microresonator modes using an auxiliary laser. This enables the generation of soliton frequency combs at a record low threshold power of 780 microwatt.
Optica 6, 206-212
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Our recent work on the interplay between time-reversal symmetry breaking and polarization symmetry breaking has been published in Physical Review Letters. 
PRL 122 013905
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Together with our collaborators Michael Vanner and Georg Enzian from Imperial College we published a paper on Brillouin optomechanical strong coupling in microresonators.
Optica 6, 7-14 (2019)
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Our paper on the dynamics of the interaction of counterpropagting light in microresonators has been published. This work has been done together with Gian-Luca Oppo and Lewis Hill at the University of Strathclyde.
Physical Review A, 98, 053863

We are organizing a special symposium on nonreciprocal photonics at CLEO2019 in San Jose (May 5th-10th 2019). Contributed submissions welcome! More information on the CLEO website.

Our work on nonlinear interaction of counterpropagating light in microresonators received the 2018 NPL Rayleigh Award. Congratulations to everyone!

Our work on microresonator-based optical isolators and circulators using the nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect has been published in Optica. https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.000279

Leonardo Del Bino won a best poster award at the “653. WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Optical Microcavities and Their Applications” for his poster on optical isolators and circulators based on the nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect in microresonators.

Jonathan Silver received the “Best Presentation Award” of NPL’s time and frequency symposium.

Jonathan Silver was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship by the Royal Academy of Engineering for work on applications of spontaneous symmetry breaking between counterpropagating light in whispering gallery microresonators. Congratulations Jonathan!

Pascal Del’Haye received this year’s Young Scientist Award of the European Frequency and Time Forum. The award was presented during the plenary session of the EFTF/IFCS conference in Besancon “For outstanding contributions to the development of microresonator–based optical frequency combs”.

Leonardo Del Bino was rewarded with the Incubic/Milton Chang travel grant for his work on symmetry breaking of counterpropagating light in microresonators. The grant covers travel costs to this year’s CLEO conference in San Jose, CA USA. Congratulations Leonardo!
http://www.osa.org/en-us/foundation/programs/incubic/

Pascal Del’Haye received a Horizons2020 Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Grant for research on nonlinear interaction of counter-propagating light.