Dynamics of cavity soliton driven by chirped optical pulses in Kerr resonators

Jianxing Pan; Chaoyu Xu; Zhichao Wu; Jing Zhang; Tianye Huang; Perry Ping Shum

doi:10.1007/s12200-022-00018-3

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