Soliton formation with controllable frequency line spacing using dual pumps in a microresonator

Zitong Xiong; Jian Ruan; Rongyu Li; Zhiming Zhang; Guangqiang He

doi:10.3788/COL201614.121903

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Chinese Optics Letters
Vol. 14, Issue 12, 121903 (2016)

Soliton formation with controllable frequency line spacing using dual pumps in a microresonator

Zitong Xiong¹, Jian Ruan¹, Rongyu Li¹, Zhiming Zhang⁴, and Guangqiang He^{1、2、3、*}

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¹State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Electronic Engineering Department, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

²State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

³State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

⁴Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Engineering and Quantum Materials, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China

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Zitong Xiong, Jian Ruan, Rongyu Li, Zhiming Zhang, Guangqiang He. Soliton formation with controllable frequency line spacing using dual pumps in a microresonator[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2016, 14(12): 121903 Copy Citation Text

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Abstract

Temporal cavity solitons (CSs) have excellent properties that can sustain their shape in a temporal profile and with a broadband, smooth-frequency spectrum. We propose a method for controllable frequency line spacing soliton formation in a microresonator using two continuous-wave (CW) pumps with multi-free-spectral-range (FSR) spacing. The method we propose has better control over the amount and location of the solitons traveling in the cavity compared to the tuning pump method. We also find that by introducing a second pump with frequency