Directly stabilized solitons in silicon-nitride microresonators

2016/12/22 by Bao, Chengying, Xuan, Yi, Leaird, Daniel E. +2
#FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.07795

Abstract

We investigate soliton generation dynamics with the influence of thermal effects. Either soliton annihilation or survival can occur in different trials with the same tuning method, and a spontaneous route to soliton formation is observed.

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