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Ecole Polytechnique Féderale De Lausanne (epfl)

Tobias Herr

Tobias Kippenberg

Steve Lecomte

Michael Gorodetsky

Ewelina Obrzud

Michael L Gorodetsky

A laser source apparatus () for generating temporal dissipative cavity solitons () comprises an input source-device (), being configured for providing an input light field (), and an optical resonator device () with a resonator () having a third order optical Kerr non-linearity and being coupled with the input source device () for generating the cavity solitons () by the driving input light field (), wherein the input source device () is configured for providing the input light field () as a pulse train of laser pulses (). Preferably, the pulse repetition rate of the input laser pulses () is adapted to the free spectral range of the resonator () and the carrier envelope offset frequency of the input laser pulses () is adapted to one of the resonant frequencies of the resonator (). Furthermore, a method of generating temporal dissipative cavity solitons () is described.

Laser source apparatus and method for generating temporal dissipative cavity solitons

A light pulse source (), being adapted for generating repetitive optical pulses, comprises a continuous wave (cw) laser () being arranged for providing cw laser light, an optical microresonator () being made of a resonator material, which has a third order (Kerr) nonlinearity and an anomalous resonator dispersion, wherein the cw laser () is arranged for coupling the cw laser light into the optical microresonator (), which, at a predetermined relative detuning of the cw laser () and the optical microresonator (), is capable of including a light field in a soliton state, wherein soliton shaped pulses can be coupled out of the optical microresonator () for providing the repetitive optical pulses, and a tuning device () being arranged for creating and maintaining the predetermined relative detuning of the cw laser () and the optical microresonator () based on a tuning time profile being selected in dependency on a thermal time constant of the optical microresonator () such that the soliton state is achieved in a thermal equilibrium state of the optical microresonator (). Furthermore, a method of generating repetitive optical pulses is described based on soliton shaped pulses coupled out of an optical microresonator () is described.

Generating optical pulses via a soliton state of an optical microresonator

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