Single and Multiple Soliton Generation Device and Method
AssigneeEcole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (Epfl)
InventorsMaxim Karpov, Victor Brasch, Tobias Kippenberg
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Abstract
A soliton generation apparatus comprising: an optical resonator; a pumping laser for providing light at a pumping wavelength into the optical resonator; a generator for generating multiple solitons in the optical resonator; a detuning device for changing the wavelength detuning between the pumping laser wavelength and an optical resonance wavelength of the optical resonator to remove at least one soliton of the generated multiple solitons to provide (i) a plurality of solitons that comprises at least one less soliton than that of the generated multiple solitons or (ii) a single soliton in the optical resonator.
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Soliton generation apparatus comprising:
- an optical resonator;
- a pumping laser for providing light at a pumping wavelength into the optical resonator;
- a generator for generating multiple solitons in the optical resonator;
- a detuning device for changing the wavelength detuning between the pumping laser wavelength and an optical resonance wavelength of the optical resonator to remove at least one soliton of the generated multiple solitons to provide (i) a plurality of solitons that comprises at least one less soliton than that of the generated multiple solitons or (ii) a single soliton in the optical resonator.
Soliton generation method including the steps of:
- introducing pumping laser light at a pumping wavelength into an optical resonator;
- generating multiple solitons in the optical resonator;
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- changing the wavelength detuning between the pumping laser wavelength and an optical resonance wavelength of the optical resonator to remove at least one soliton of the generated multiple solitons to provide (i) a plurality of solitons that comprises at least one less soliton than that of the generated multiple solitons or (ii) a single soliton in the optical resonator.
Soliton probing apparatus including:
- a phase modulator for modulating a pumping laser light to non-destructively probe soliton generation in an optical resonator;
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- a modulation response analyzer for receiving an optical response signal outputted by the optical resonator and configured to determine a modulation response signal representing the response of the optical resonator to the phase modulation of the pumping laser light.
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