Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity

In this paper, we report a new method to generate tunable high-repetition-rate temporal cavity solitons (TCSs) in a nonlinear fiber cavity, which is driven by dual Brillouin laser pulses. This method is more feasible than generating solitons via a continuous optical-driven nonlinear cavity because o...

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Main Authors: Wenhao Xiong, Chuanfei Yao, Pingxue Li, Yixuan Wang, Feiyu Zhu
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772311/
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author Wenhao Xiong
Chuanfei Yao
Pingxue Li
Yixuan Wang
Feiyu Zhu
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Chuanfei Yao
Pingxue Li
Yixuan Wang
Feiyu Zhu
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description In this paper, we report a new method to generate tunable high-repetition-rate temporal cavity solitons (TCSs) in a nonlinear fiber cavity, which is driven by dual Brillouin laser pulses. This method is more feasible than generating solitons via a continuous optical-driven nonlinear cavity because of the enhanced four-wave mixing process triggered by the high peak intensity Brillouin laser pulses. The generated TCSs lock to the beating signal arriving from dual Brillouin pulses, which allows the repetition rate of the solitons to be directly tuned all- optically. The TCSs can be continuously tuned over a repetition rate range of 140∼242 GHz by controlling the external dual-wavelength spacing, and the pulse duration can be accordingly adjusted from 0.9 ps to 513 fs. Such TCSs with tunable high-repetition-rate can provide a practical solution for the low-noise controllable millimeter-wave and terahertz sources.
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spelling doaj.art-d8b2c85ebd8141a7b89fb5280ff2c48e2022-12-22T02:34:48ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552022-01-011431410.1109/JPHOT.2022.31735009772311Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser CavityWenhao Xiong0Chuanfei Yao1Pingxue Li2https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2884-0805Yixuan Wang3Feiyu Zhu4Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaFaculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaFaculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaFaculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaFaculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, ChinaIn this paper, we report a new method to generate tunable high-repetition-rate temporal cavity solitons (TCSs) in a nonlinear fiber cavity, which is driven by dual Brillouin laser pulses. This method is more feasible than generating solitons via a continuous optical-driven nonlinear cavity because of the enhanced four-wave mixing process triggered by the high peak intensity Brillouin laser pulses. The generated TCSs lock to the beating signal arriving from dual Brillouin pulses, which allows the repetition rate of the solitons to be directly tuned all- optically. The TCSs can be continuously tuned over a repetition rate range of 140∼242 GHz by controlling the external dual-wavelength spacing, and the pulse duration can be accordingly adjusted from 0.9 ps to 513 fs. Such TCSs with tunable high-repetition-rate can provide a practical solution for the low-noise controllable millimeter-wave and terahertz sources.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772311/Dual pulse Brillouin laserKerr frequency combtemporal cavity solitonstuning mode spacing
spellingShingle Wenhao Xiong
Chuanfei Yao
Pingxue Li
Yixuan Wang
Feiyu Zhu
Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity
IEEE Photonics Journal
Dual pulse Brillouin laser
Kerr frequency comb
temporal cavity solitons
tuning mode spacing
title Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity
title_full Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity
title_fullStr Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity
title_full_unstemmed Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity
title_short Temporal Cavity Solitons With Tunable High-Repetition-Rate Generation in a Brillouin Pulse Laser Cavity
title_sort temporal cavity solitons with tunable high repetition rate generation in a brillouin pulse laser cavity
topic Dual pulse Brillouin laser
Kerr frequency comb
temporal cavity solitons
tuning mode spacing
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9772311/
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