2021/11/30 by Kenji Nishimoto, Kaoru Minoshima, Takeshi Yasui +1 · 1 citation
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Dissipative soliton #Dissipative system #Frequency comb #Optical Network Technologies #Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics #Resonance (particle physics) #Sideband #Soliton #Thermal #physics.app-ph #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/ol.448326
openalex publication_date 2021/12/13 · arxiv created 2021/12/14 · arxiv updated 2022/01/19 · openalex created_date 2022/01/26 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We report the thermal control of a dissipative Kerr microresonator soliton comb via an optical sideband generated from an electro-optic modulator. Same as the previous reports using an independent auxiliary laser, our sideband-based (S-B) auxiliary light also enables access to a stable soliton comb and reduces the phase noise of the soliton comb, greatly simplifying the set-up with an auxiliary laser. More importantly, because of the intrinsically high frequency/phase correlation between the pump and S-B auxiliary light, the detuning between the pump and resonance frequency is automatically almost fixed, which allows an 18 times larger "effective" soliton existence range than the conventional method using an independent auxiliary laser, as well as a scanning of the soliton comb of more than 10 GHz without using microheaters.