https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2019-100052-y
Regular Article
Soliton-comb structures in ring-shaped optical microresonators: generation, reconstruction and stability
Laboratory of Research on Advanced Materials and Nonlinear Science (LaRAMaNS), Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, PO Box 63, Buea, Cameroon
* e-mail: dikande.alain@ubuea.cm
Received:
29
January
2019
Accepted:
10
May
2019
Published online:
23
July
2019
Characteristic features of soliton-comb structures in optical microresonators are investigated in normal and anomalous dispersion regimes, when the detuning parameter is varied over a broad range of values. The study rests on the assumption that soliton combs are self-organized ensemble of co-propagating coherently entangled states of light, and depending on the group-velocity dispersion they can result from space-division multiplexing of single-bright and single-dark solitons. Their analytical and numerical reconstruction schemes are discussed, while a linear-stability analysis leads to a 2 × 2 Lamé eigenvalue problem whose boundstate spectrum is composed of a Goldstone-type translation mode and stable internal modes, as well as unstable decaying modes and growing modes. A power-spectral analysis of the three distinct possible soliton crystals enables us probe their inner structures in the frequency domain, and unveil the existence of structural defects in their power spectra.
Key words: Optical Phenomena and Photonics
© EDP Sciences / Società Italiana di Fisica / Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2019