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ArticleNature communications2026

Soliton-assisted massive signal broadcasting via exceptional points.

Zhuang Fan, Yukun Huang, Wenchan Dong, Haodong Yang, Jiahao Hu, Yizheng Chen, Hanghang Li, Nuo Chen, Heng Zhou, Jing Xu and 1 more

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Zhuang Fan *School of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Yukun Huang *School of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Wenchan Dong *School of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Haodong YangSchool of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Jiahao HuKey Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communication Networks, School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Yizheng ChenSchool of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-6843-6933
Hanghang LiSchool of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Nuo ChenSchool of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0007-3496-1271
Heng ZhouKey Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communication Networks, School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. zhouheng@uestc.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5601-0772
Jing XuSchool of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. jing_xu@hust.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9886-5827
Xinliang ZhangSchool of Optical and Electronic Information and Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. xlzhang@hust.edu.cn.

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Abstract

Chip-scale all-optical signal broadcasting, which replicates data across multiple wavelength channels via Kerr nonlinearity, is critical for high-throughput optical communication and computing systems. High-quality microcavities boost the inherently weak optical nonlinearity but suffer from Fourier reciprocity, creating a fundamental trade-off that prevents simultaneous generation of the multi-wavelength pump for broadcasting (soliton frequency combs) and massive broadcasting in a single cavity. Here we show that a parity-time symmetric coupled-cavity system featuring equally spaced exceptional points in the frequency domain resolves this limitation. This design integrates comb generation and all-optical broadcasting into a unified process, achieving over 100 usable channels across 200 nm bandwidth with terabit-per-second throughput-three orders of magnitude beyond the intrinsic cavity linewidth limit. We further demonstrate an optical convolutional accelerator, establishing a new non-Hermitian paradigm for chip-scale photonic processing.

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