Chaotic dynamics of frequency combs generated with continuously pumped nonlinear microresonators
Optics
2015-06-12 v1
Abstract
We theoretically and experimentally investigate the chaotic regime of optical frequency combs generated in nonlinear ring microresonators pumped with continuous wave light. We show that the chaotic regime reveals itself, in an apparently counter-intuitive way, by a flat top symmetric envelope of the frequency spectrum, when observed by means of an optical spectrum analyzer. The comb demodulated on a fast photodiode produces a noisy radio frequency signal with an spectral width significantly exceeding the linear bandwidth of the microresonator mode.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1211.4558,
title = {Chaotic dynamics of frequency combs generated with continuously pumped nonlinear microresonators},
author = {Andrey B. Matsko and Wei Liang and Anatoliy A. Savchenkov and Lute Maleki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4558},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures