Efficient Kerr soliton comb generation in micro-resonator with interferometric back-coupling

J. M. Chavez Boggio; D. Bodenmüller; S. Ahmed; S. Wabnitz; D. Modotto; T. Hansson

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28927-z

Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Efficient Kerr soliton comb generation in micro-resonator with interferometric back-coupling

J. M. Chavez Boggio,
D. Bodenmüller,
S. Ahmed,
S. Wabnitz,
D. Modotto,
T. Hansson

Affiliations

J. M. Chavez Boggio: innoFSPEC-Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
D. Bodenmüller: innoFSPEC-Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
S. Ahmed: innoFSPEC-Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam
S. Wabnitz: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Sapienza Università di Roma
D. Modotto: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Brescia
T. Hansson: Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28927-z
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Increasing the conversion efficiency of soliton crystals will enable further application of optical frequency comb. Here the authors engineer an hybrid Mach-Zehnder micro-ring resonator to achieve 80% pump-to-comb conversion efficiency based on dissipative Kerr solitons.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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