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Microwave Photonics Systems Based on Whispering-gallery-mode Resonators
Published on: August 5, 2013
Mode-locked Kerr frequency combs
A B Matsko1, A A Savchenkov, W Liang
1OEwaves Inc., 2555 East Colorado Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91107, USA. andrey.matsko@oewaves.com
Abstract:
We analyze a mode-locked regime in Kerr frequency combs generated in nonlinear microresonators. Using damped driven nonlinear Schrödinger equations we show that the combs can produce subpicosecond optical pulses when the resonators are characterized with a small enough anomalous group velocity dispersion. We provide an analytical solution of the problem for the case of small damping.
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