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Soliton (optics)

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Soliton states of micro-resonator for reconfigurable microwave photonic filters

Camille Sophie Brès

We propose radiofrequency filters using solitons generated from Si3N4 microresonators. By leveraging inherent diverse solitons states, we show filter tunability achieved without the need for external pulse shaping, establishing an essential step towards re ...

IEEE2020

Nonlinear effects in synthetic frequency dimension created by electro-optical modulation of a ring resonator

Tobias Kippenberg, Alexey Tikan, Aleksandr Tusnin

We numerically investigate the nonlinear dynamics of an optical resonator with electro-optical modulation. In this system we discover chimera states and their transition into new stable states with increasing modulation amplitude. Bifurcation analysis reve ...

IEEE2020

Nonreciprocity in Bianisotropic Systems with Uniform Time Modulation

Xiaoqiang Wang, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Physical systems with material properties modulated in time provide versatile routes for designing magnetless nonreciprocal devices. Traditionally, nonreciprocity in such systems is achieved exploiting both temporal and spatial modulations, which inevitabl ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Spectral Properties of the Signal in Phase-Sensitive Optical Time-Domain Reflectometry with Direct Detection

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Li Zhang, Xin Lu

The spectral properties of the Rayleigh backscattered traces measured by a phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometer (øOTDR) with direct detection are theoretically and experimentally analyzed. The spectrum of the measured øOTDR signal is found to ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020

Dynamics of soliton crystals in optical microresonators

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Wenle Weng

Dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators combine nonlinear optical physics with photonic-integrated technologies. They are promising for a number of applications ranging from optical coherent communications to astrophysical spectrometer calibra ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019

Physics of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators and Application to Frequency Synthesis

Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas

Optical-frequency combs, that is spectra of equidistant coherent optical lines, have revolutionized the precision measurements of time and frequency. In 2007 a new method to generate optical frequency combs was discovered. In contrast to conventional gener ...

EPFL2019

Integrated Si3N4 Soliton Microcomb Driven by a Compact Ultra-low-noise Laser

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Rui Ning Wang, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Arslan Sajid Raja, Jijun He, Nicolas Volet, Romain Dany Bruno Bouchand

We generate 100-GHz soliton microcombs in a photonic integrated high-Q Si3N4 microresonator using an ultra-compact, high-power and low-frequency-noise semiconductor-based laser. The soliton is initiated via direct current tuning of the laser. (C) 2019 The ...

IEEE2019

Optically Probed Time Dynamics of χ(2) Grating Inscription in SiN Waveguides

Tobias Kippenberg, Camille Sophie Brès, Davide Grassani, Edgars Nitiss, Tianyi Liu

Silicon Nitride (S13N4) waveguide platforms have seen significant interest in the recent years, motivated by several advantageous properties such as compatibility with CMOS fabrication standards, low propagation loss, high refractive index and optical nonl ...

2019

Spatiotemporal self-similar fiber laser

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Eirini Kakkava, Babak Rahmani, Ugur Tegin

Spatiotemporal mode-locked fiber lasers are a type of ultrafast lasers for which the longitudinal and transverse modes of the multimode fiber cavities are locked via nonlinear interaction in the cavity. Here we report the experimental realization of a spat ...

2019

Spectral Purification of Microwave Signals with Disciplined Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Tobias Kippenberg, Hairun Guo, Erwan Guillaume Albert Lucas, Wenle Weng

Continuous-wave-driven Kerr nonlinear microresonators give rise to self-organization in terms of dissipative Kerr solitons, which constitute optical frequency combs that can be used to generate low-noise microwave signals. Here, by applying either amplitud ...

American Physical Society (APS)2019

Ultralow-Power Photonic Chip-Based Soliton Frequency Combs

Tobias Kippenberg, Junqiu Liu, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Hairun Guo, Arslan Sajid Raja, Michail Zervas, Nils Johan Engelsen, Bahareh Ghadiani

The generation of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators allow compact high repetition rate frequency combs. A particularly promising platform is photonic integrated Si3N4 microresonators. Yet to date, soliton formation in Si3N4 microresonato ...

IEEE2018