Frequency comb generation beyond the Lugiato-Lefever equation: multi-stability and super cavity solitons
Journal article, 2015

The generation of optical frequency combs in microresonators is considered without resorting to the mean-field approximation. New dynamical regimes are found to appear for high intracavity power that cannot be modeled using the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Using the Ikeda map, we show the existence of multi-valued stationary states and analyze their stability. Period doubled patterns are considered, and a novel type of super cavity soliton associated with the multi-stable states is predicted.

Resonator

System

Ring Cavity

Chaos

Modulational Instability

Optical-Fiber

Author

Tobias Hansson

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Condensed Matter Theory

S. Wabnitz

University of Brescia

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

0740-3224 (ISSN) 15208540 (eISSN)

Vol. 32 7 1259-1266

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies

DOI

10.1364/JOSAB.32.001259

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