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Dissipative soliton generation and real-time dynamics in microresonator-filtered fiber lasers
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 11, Pages: 2676-2686(2022)
- Affiliations：
1.Department of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, 80309, USA
2.School of Electronic Science and Engineering, National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, China
- Author bio：
Mingming Nie (mingming.nie@colorado.edu)
ShuWei Huang (shuwei.huang@colorado.edu)
- Funds：
DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-00998-z
CLC：Published：30 November 2022，
Published Online：12 October 2022，
Received：04 April 2022，
Revised：24 September 2022，
Accepted：27 September 2022
- Accepted：
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Nie, M. M. et al. Dissipative soliton generation and real-time dynamics in microresonator-filtered fiber lasers. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2676-2686 (2022).
Nie, M. M. et al. Dissipative soliton generation and real-time dynamics in microresonator-filtered fiber lasers. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2676-2686 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-00998-z.
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Abstract
Optical frequency combs in microresonators (microcombs) have a wide range of applications in science and technology
due to its compact size and access to considerably larger comb spacing. Despite recent successes
the problems of self-starting
high mode efficiency as well as high output power have not been fully addressed for conventional soliton microcombs. Recent demonstration of laser cavity soliton microcombs by nesting a microresonator into a fiber cavity
shows great potential to solve the problems. Here we study the dissipative soliton generation and interaction dynamics in a microresonator-filtered fiber laser in both theory and experiment. We bring theoretical insight into the mode-locking principle
discuss the parameters effect on soliton properties
and provide experimental guidelines for broadband soliton generation. We predict chirped bright dissipative soliton with flat-top spectral envelope in microresonators with normal dispersion
which is fundamentally forbidden for the externally driven case. Furthermore
we experimentally achieve soliton microcombs with large bandwidth of ~10 nm and high mode efficiency of 90.7%. Finally
by taking advantage of an ultrahigh-speed time magnifier
we study the real-time soliton formation and interaction dynamics and experimentally observe soliton Newton's cradle. Our study will benefit the design of the novel
high-efficiency and self-starting microcombs for real-world applications.
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