Self-starting mode locking soliton comb device
AssigneePospea, LLC
InventorsQiang Lin, Yang He
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Abstract
A self-starting mode locking soliton device includes a first optical port to accept an input coherent light. A second optical port provides an output comb of a plurality of wavelengths. A comb resonator with optical Kerr nonlinearity and anomalous group-velocity dispersion is optically coupled to both of said first optical port and said second optical port. The resonator includes an optical property of a negative nonlinear bistability to enable the self-starting mode locking of a Kerr soliton comb. A method of self-starting mode locking is described. A method of producing the negative nonlinear bistability is also described.
Claims18
A mode locking soliton device comprising:
- a first optical port to accept an input coherent light;
- a second optical port to provide an output comb of a plurality of wavelengths;
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- a comb resonator with optical Kerr nonlinearity and anomalous group-velocity dispersion optically coupled to both of said first optical port and said second optical port, said resonator comprising an optical property of a negative nonlinear bistability.
A method of producing a comb of a plurality of wavelengths comprising:
- providing a mode locking soliton device comprising a first optical port, a second optical port, and a comb resonator with optical Kerr nonlinearity and anomalous group-velocity dispersion optically coupled to both of said first optical port and said second optical port, said resonator comprising an optical property of a negative nonlinear bistability;
- illuminating said first optical port by a source of coherent light to self-start mode locking of said resonator;
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- generating a coherent output comb of said plurality of wavelengths as output light from said second optical port.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.