Invited Article: Emission of intense resonant radiation by dispersion-managed Kerr cavity solitons
Alexander U. Nielsen,
Bruno Garbin,
Stéphane Coen,
Stuart G. Murdoch,
Miro Erkintalo
Affiliations
Alexander U. Nielsen
The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Bruno Garbin
The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Stéphane Coen
The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Stuart G. Murdoch
The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Miro Erkintalo
The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
We report on an experimental and numerical study of temporal Kerr cavity soliton dynamics in dispersion-managed fiber ring resonators. We find that dispersion management can significantly magnify the Kelly-like resonant radiation sidebands emitted by the solitons. Because of the underlying phase-matching conditions, the sideband amplitudes tend to increase with increasing pump-cavity detuning, ultimately limiting the range of detunings over which the solitons can exist. Our experimental findings show excellent agreement with numerical simulations.
