All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression
Temporal cavity solitons, or dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in integrated microresonators, are essential for deployable metrology technologies. Such applications favor the lowest noise state, typically the single-DKS state where one soliton is in the resonator. Other multi-DKS states can also be r...
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| author | Pradyoth Shandilya Shao-Chien Ou Jordan Stone Curtis Menyuk Miro Erkintalo Kartik Srinivasan Grégory Moille |
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| description | Temporal cavity solitons, or dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in integrated microresonators, are essential for deployable metrology technologies. Such applications favor the lowest noise state, typically the single-DKS state where one soliton is in the resonator. Other multi-DKS states can also be reached, offering better conversion efficiency and thermal stability, potentially simplifying DKS-based technologies. Yet they exhibit more noise due to relative soliton jitter and are usually not compatible with targeted applications. We demonstrate that Kerr-induced synchronization, an all-optical trapping technique, can azimuthally pin the multi-DKS state to a common reference field. This method ensures repetition rate noise is independent of the number of solitons, making a multi-DKS state indistinguishable from a single-DKS state in that regard, akin to trapped-soliton molecule behavior. Supported by theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration in an integrated microresonator, this approach provides metrological capacity regardless of the number of cavity solitons, benefiting numerous DKS-based metrology applications. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-3024deda74b646b08a865c9ebbef6a562025-02-03T16:36:22ZengAIP Publishing LLCAPL Photonics2378-09672025-01-01101016104016104-710.1063/5.0234030All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppressionPradyoth Shandilya0Shao-Chien Ou1Jordan Stone2Curtis Menyuk3Miro Erkintalo4Kartik Srinivasan5Grégory Moille6University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USAJoint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USAMicrosystems and Nanotechnology Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USAUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USADepartment of Physics, University of Auckland, Auckland, New ZealandJoint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USAJoint Quantum Institute, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USATemporal cavity solitons, or dissipative Kerr solitons (DKSs) in integrated microresonators, are essential for deployable metrology technologies. Such applications favor the lowest noise state, typically the single-DKS state where one soliton is in the resonator. Other multi-DKS states can also be reached, offering better conversion efficiency and thermal stability, potentially simplifying DKS-based technologies. Yet they exhibit more noise due to relative soliton jitter and are usually not compatible with targeted applications. We demonstrate that Kerr-induced synchronization, an all-optical trapping technique, can azimuthally pin the multi-DKS state to a common reference field. This method ensures repetition rate noise is independent of the number of solitons, making a multi-DKS state indistinguishable from a single-DKS state in that regard, akin to trapped-soliton molecule behavior. Supported by theoretical analysis and experimental demonstration in an integrated microresonator, this approach provides metrological capacity regardless of the number of cavity solitons, benefiting numerous DKS-based metrology applications.http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0234030 |
| spellingShingle | Pradyoth Shandilya Shao-Chien Ou Jordan Stone Curtis Menyuk Miro Erkintalo Kartik Srinivasan Grégory Moille All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression APL Photonics |
| title | All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression |
| title_full | All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression |
| title_fullStr | All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression |
| title_full_unstemmed | All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression |
| title_short | All-optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative Kerr multi-solitons for relative noise suppression |
| title_sort | all optical azimuthal trapping of dissipative kerr multi solitons for relative noise suppression |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0234030 |
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