Frequency combs and platicons in optical microresonators with normal GVD

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7713-7721

  Lobanov, V E ^a   Lihachev, G ^a,b   Kippenberg, T J ^c   Gorodetsky, M L ^a,b  

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

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PUMPING (LASER); RESONATORS; SOLITONS;

DARK SOLITONS; DISCRETE ENERGY SPECTRA; FREQUENCY COMBS; LASER INJECTION; MICRO RESONATORS; OPTICAL MICRORESONATORS; PUMP FREQUENCY; SOLITONIC PULSE;

GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION;

EID: 84936849975     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.007713     Document Type: Article

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