Spontaneous creation and annihilation of temporal cavity solitons in a coherently driven passive fiber resonator

Optics Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 3735-3738

  Luo, Kathy ^a   Jang, Jae K ^a   Coen, Stéphane ^a   Murdoch, Stuart G ^a   Erkintalo, Miro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; SOLITONS;

CAVITY SOLITONS; DIFFERENT STAGES; DRIVING FIELD; FIBER RESONATOR; MACROSCOPIC DIMENSIONS; MICRO RESONATORS; PASSIVE FIBERS; REAL TIME;

RESONATORS;

EID: 84942858099     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.003735     Document Type: Article

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