Time-domain measurements have confirmed the existence and compression of optical solitons in nanoscale planar photonic crystal waveguides, giving hope for the future prospects of on-chip nonlinear optical circuits.
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Skryabin, D., Knight, J. Compressing slow solitons. Nature Photon 4, 806–807 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.270
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