Mode spectrum and temporal soliton formation in optical microresonators

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Herr, T ^a   Brasch, V ^a   Jost, J D ^a   Mirgorodskiy, I ^a,b   Lihachev, G ^b   Gorodetsky, M L ^b,c   Kippenberg, T J ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSIONS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; PULSE REPETITION RATE; PUMPING (LASER); ULTRASHORT PULSES;

DISSIPATIVE SOLITONS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGHER ORDER DISPERSION; NONLINEAR COUPLED-MODE EQUATIONS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY COMBS; OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS; SPECTRAL ENVELOPES; TEMPORAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84907210979     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.123901     Document Type: Article

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