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Soliton trapping and comb self-referencing in a single microresonator with $chi^{(2)}$ and $chi^{(3)}$ nonlinearities

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 نشر من قبل Xiaoxiao Xue
 تاريخ النشر 2017
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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A shaped doublet pump pulse is proposed for simultaneous octave-spanning soliton Kerr frequency comb generation and second-harmonic conversion in a single microresonator. The temporal soliton in the cavity is trapped atop a doublet pulse pedestal, resulting in a greatly expanded soliton region compared to that with a general Gaussian pulse pump. The possibility of single-microresonator comb self-referencing in a single silicon nitride microring, which can facilitate compact on-chip optical clocks, is demonstrated via simulation.



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