• DocumentCode
    3600407
  • Title

    Parametric soliton formation in narrow-band laser-gain driven microresonators

  • Author

    Wen, Y. Henry ; Lamont, Michael R. E. ; Gaeta, Alexander L.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng. & Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We investigate comb formation in laser-gain driven microresonators for various gain bandwidths and show that broadband cavity solitons exist for gain as narrow as one cavity mode, in close correspondence to parametric frequency combs.
  • Keywords
    laser cavity resonators; micro-optomechanical devices; micromechanical resonators; optical frequency combs; optical solitons; broadband cavity solitons; cavity mode; comb formation; gain bandwidth; narrow-band laser-gain driven microresonators; parametric frequency combs; parametric soliton formation; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Gain; Microcavities; Nonlinear optics; Optical waveguides; Solitons;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7184127