Turnkey deterministic soliton crystal generation
Abstract
The deterministic generation of robust soliton comb has significant meaning for the optical frequency combs to be widely used in various applications. As a novel form of microcomb, Soliton crystal holds the advantages of easy generation, high conversion efficiency, and excellent thermal robustness. Here, we report the turnkey deterministic generation of "Palm-like" soliton crystal with a free-running scheme. The robustness of the turnkey soliton crystal generation is also investigated in multiple aspects, including the success rate, the thermal robustness, and the long-term stability. The experiment results reveal our turnkey soliton crystal can achieve nearly a 100% success rate with a power variation less than 1.5 dB over one hundred trials of two samples, is insensitive to thermal effect, and is robust to the environment during four-hour laboratory time.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.17069,
title = {Turnkey deterministic soliton crystal generation},
author = {Xinyu Yang and Xiaotian Zhu and Caitlin Murray and Chawaphon Paryoonyong and Xingyuan Xu and Mengxi Tan and Roberto Morandotti and Brent E. Little and David J. Moss and Sai T. Chu and Bill Corcoran and Donglin Su},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17069},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures