Stability and Intrinsic Fluctuations of Dissipative Cavity Solitons in Kerr Frequency Microcombs

Author

Heng Zhou ; Shu-Wei Huang ; Yixian Dong ; Mingle Liao ; Kun Qiu ; Chee Wei Wong

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Opt. Fiber Sensing & Commun. Networks, Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

Volume

7

Issue

3

fYear

2015

fDate

Jun-15

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

13

Abstract

The generation of dissipative cavity solitons is one of the most intriguing features of microresonator-based Kerr frequency combs, enabling effective mode locking of comb modes and synthesis of ultrafast pulses. With the Lugiato-Lefever model, here, we conduct detailed theoretical investigations on the transient dynamics of dissipative cavity solitons and describe how several intrinsic effects of the Kerr comb disturb the stability of cavity solitons, including soliton breathing, higher order dispersion, dispersive wave emission, and cavity mode coupling. Our results and analysis agree well with recent measurements and provide insight into some as yet unexplained observations.

Keywords

fluctuations; high-speed optical techniques; micro-optics; micromechanical resonators; optical dispersion; optical frequency combs; optical resonators; optical solitons; Kerr frequency microcombs; Lugiato-Lefever model; cavity mode coupling; dispersive wave emission; dissipative cavity solitons; effective mode locking; intrinsic fluctuations; microresonator-based Kerr frequency combs; soliton breathing; stability; transient dynamics; ultrafast pulses; Cavity resonators; Dispersion; Microcavities; Optical pumping; Solitons; Microcavity devices; Nonlinear optics; four-wave mixing; microcavity devices; nonlinear optics; parametric processes;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2015.2433902

Filename

7109097