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Existence and switching behavior of bright and dark Kerr solitons in whispering-gallery mode resonators with zero group-velocity dispersion

2017/03/06 by Jimmi Hervé Talla Mbé, Jimmi H. Talla Mbé, Carles Milián +1 · 25 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Dispersion (optics) #Group velocity #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Optics #Parameter space #Photonic and Optical Devices #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #RADIUS #Resonator #Velocity dispersion #Whispering-gallery wave #Zero (linguistics) #physics.optics

paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1140/epjd/e2017-80132-8

published in The European Physical Journal D 71(7) (Springer Science+Business Media) · 7 pages, 5 figures

arxiv created 2017/03/06 · openalex created_date 2017/03/16 · openalex publication_date 2017/07/01 · arxiv updated 2017/08/02 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We use the generalized Lugiato-Lefever model to investigate the phenomenon of Kerr optical frequency comb generation when group-velocity dispersion is null. In that case, the first dispersion term that plays a leading role is third-order dispersion. We show that this term is sufficient to allow for the existence of both bright and dark solitons. We identify the areas in the parameter space where both kind of solitons can be excited inside the resonator. We also unveil a phenomenon of hysteretic switching between these two types of solitons when the power of the pump laser is cyclically varied.

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