Temporal Cavity Solitons in a Laser-based Microcomb: A Path to a Self-Starting Pulsed Laser without Saturable Absorption
Optics
2021-02-03 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons
Abstract
We theoretically present a design of self-starting operation of microcombs based on laser-cavity solitons in a system composed of a micro-resonator nested in and coupled to an amplifying laser cavity. We demonstrate that it is possible to engineer the modulational-instability gain of the system's zero state to allow the start-up with a well-defined number of robust solitons. The approach can be implemented by using the system parameters, such as the cavity length mismatch and the gain shape, to control the number and repetition rate of the generated solitons. Because the setting does not require saturation of the gain, the results offer an alternative to standard techniques that provide laser mode-locking.
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@article{arxiv.2102.01164,
title = {Temporal Cavity Solitons in a Laser-based Microcomb: A Path to a Self-Starting Pulsed Laser without Saturable Absorption},
author = {A. Cutrona and P. -H. Hanzard and M. Rowley and J. S. Totero-Gongora and M. Peccianti and B. A. Malomed and G. -L. Oppo and A. Pasquazi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.01164},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
To be published in Optics Express