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We propose two models for the creation of stable dissipative solitons in optical media with the $\chi^{(2)}$ (quadratic) nonlinearity. To compensate spatially uniform loss in both the fundamental-frequency (FF) and second-harmonic (SH)…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-23 Valery E. Lobanov , Olga V. Borovkova , Boris A. Malomed

Chip-scale optical frequency combs have attracted significant research interest and can be used in applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to telecom channel generators and lidar systems. In the time domain, microresonator based…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-22 Shuangyou Zhang , Toby Bi , Pascal Del'Haye

For more than 20 years, optical microresonators have served as the backbone of integrated nonlinear photonics, exploiting Kerr nonlinearity to generate octave-spanning frequency combs, enable quantum effects, and drive optical parametric…

Microresonator frequency combs offer tremendous opportunity to advance applications in fundamental research and technology by linking the optical and microwave frequency domains. Kerr-nonlinear microresonators further enable the generation…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-20 Haixin Liu , Alexa Carollo , Jizhao Zang , Scott B. Papp

We are reporting that the Lugiato-Lefever equation describing the frequency comb generation in ring resonators with the localized pump and loss terms also describes the simultaneous nonlinear resonances leading to the multistability of…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-17 Y. V. Kartashov , O. Alexander , D. V. Skryabin

Optical frequency combs emit narrow pulses of light with a stable repetition rate. Equivalently, the generated light spectrum consists of many discrete frequencies spaced by this same repetition rate. These precision light sources have…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-05 N. J. Lambert , L. S. Trainor , H. G. L. Schwefel

Optical frequency combs, coherent light sources that connect optical frequencies with microwave oscillations, have become the enabling tool for precision spectroscopy, optical clockwork and attosecond physics over the past decades. Current…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-21 S. -W. Huang , J. Yang , M. Yu , B. H. McGuyer , D. -L. Kwong , T. Zelevinsky , C. W. Wong

Light states relevant to the $\chi^{(2)}$ comb generation in optical microresonators possess typically dual backgrounds for coupled first-harmonic (FH) and second-harmonic (SH) envelopes. Stability and/or instability of these backgrounds is…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-23 Boris Sturman , Evgeny Podivilov , Jan Szabados , Ingo Breunig

Optical frequency combs are one of the most remarkable inventions of the last decades. Originally conceived as the spectral counterpart of the train of short pulses emitted by mode-locked lasers, frequency combs have also been subsequently…

Octave-wide frequency combs in microresonators are essential for self-referencing. However, it is difficult for the small-size and high-repetition-rate microresonators to achieve perfect soliton modelocking over the broad frequency range…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-13 Danila Puzyrev , Dmitry Skryabin

Frequency combs based on nonlinear-optical phenomena in integrated photonics are a versatile light source that can explore new applications, including frequency metrology, optical communications, and sensing. We demonstrate robust…

In the present paper we consider an optical system with a $\chi^{(2)}$-type nonlinearity and unspecified $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric potential functions. Considering this as an inverse problem and positing a family of exact solutions in terms…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-01-06 Y. N. Truong Vu , J. D'Ambroise , P. G. Kevrekidis , F. Kh. Abdullaev

Chip-scale integration of optical frequency combs, particularly soliton microcombs, enables miniaturized instrumentation for timekeeping, ranging, and spectroscopy. Although soliton microcombs have been demonstrated on various material…

Optical frequency division relies on optical frequency combs to coherently translate ultra-stable optical frequency references to the microwave domain. This technology has enabled microwave synthesis with ultralow timing noise, but the…

Generating coherent optical frequency combs in micro-ring resonators with Kerr nonlinearity has remarkably advanced the fundamental understanding and applications of temporal dissipative solitons. However, the spectrum of such soliton combs…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-12 Seyed Danial Hashemi , Sunil Mittal

Microresonator frequency combs, essential for future integrated optical systems, rely on dissipative Kerr solitons generated in a single microresonator to achieve coherent frequency comb generation. Recent advances in the nanofabrication of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-08-14 Savyaraj Deshmukh , Aleksandr Tusnin , Alexey Tikan , Tobias J. Kippenberg , Tobias M. Schneider

We studied numerically the generation of the coherent frequency combs at second harmonic generation in $\chi^{(2)}$ microresonators via conventional frequency scan method. It was demonstrated for the first time that under particular…

Optical frequency combs are lightwaves composed of a large number of equidistant spectral lines. They are important for metrology, spectroscopy, communications and fundamental science. Frequency combs are most often generated by exciting…

Frequency combs have revolutionized metrology, ranging, and optical clocks, which have motivated substantial efforts on the development of chip-scale comb sources. The on-chip comb sources are currently based on electro-optic modulation,…

The nonlinear interaction of a microresonator pumped by a laser has revealed complex dynamics including soliton formation and chaos. Initial studies of coupled-resonator systems reveal even more complicated dynamics that can lead to…