Deterministic single soliton generation and compression in microring resonators avoiding the chaotic region

Optics Express

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 9618-9626

  Jaramillo Villegas, Jose A ^a,b   Xue, Xiaoxiao ^a   Wang, Pei Hsun ^a   Leaird, Daniel E ^a   Weiner, Andrew M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA DE PEREIRA   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RESONATORS; RESONATORS; SILICON NITRIDE;

ANOMALOUS DISPERSION; CAVITY SOLITONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; FREQUENCY COMBS; MICRORING RESONATOR; MODULATION INSTABILITIES; PARAMETER SPACES; UNSTABLE REGIONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84948689686     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.009618     Document Type: Article

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