On excitation of breather solitons in an optical microresonator

On excitation of breather solitons in an optical microresonator

We theoretically investigate mode-locked regimes of optical-frequency combs generated in a nonlinear ring microresonator pumped with continuous-wave light. We find that breather solitons can be formed in the resonator for certain values of frequency and power of the pump. We argue that relatively sl...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics letters 2012-12, Vol.37 (23), p.4856-4858
Hauptverfasser: Matsko, A B, Savchenkov, A A, Maleki, L
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Excitation
Harmonics
Modulation
Nonlinearity
Pumps
Resonators
Solitons
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Zusammenfassung:We theoretically investigate mode-locked regimes of optical-frequency combs generated in a nonlinear ring microresonator pumped with continuous-wave light. We find that breather solitons can be formed in the resonator for certain values of frequency and power of the pump. We argue that relatively slow modulation of the comb-frequency harmonics observed in several recent experiments can be attributed to soliton formation.
ISSN:0146-9592
1539-4794
DOI:10.1364/ol.37.004856