2022/12/16 by Erwan Lucas, Lucas, Erwan, Moïse Deroh +3
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors #Mechanical and Optical Resonators
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2212.08534
We study a re-configurable nonreciprocal fiber ring cavity setup to generate tunable optical frequency combs. Coherent combs can be obtained by finely exploiting bi-chromatic Brillouin lasing and cascaded four-wave mixing in the nonlinear fiber cavity. We introduce a numerical model of the cavity system, which is validated by comparisons with experiments. Our work shows the importance of the mode pulling effect, controlled by the pump laser detuning, in setting the dynamics of the comb. This effect along with the impact of multimode lasing had been overlooked in previous fiber experiments. We discuss these limitations and devise several scaling laws for these system.