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Generation and Coherent Control of Pulsed Quantum Frequency Combs
Published on: June 8, 2018
Routes to spatiotemporal chaos in Kerr optical frequency combs
Aurélien Coillet1, Yanne K Chembo1
1Optics Department, FEMTO-ST Institute [CNRS UMR6174], 16 Route de Gray, 25030 Besançon cedex, France.
Abstract:
We investigate the various routes to spatiotemporal chaos in Kerr optical frequency combs, obtained through pumping an ultra-high Q-factor whispering-gallery mode resonator with a continuous-wave laser. The Lugiato-Lefever model is used to build bifurcation diagrams with regards to the parameters that are externally controllable, namely, the frequency and the power of the pumping laser. We show that the spatiotemporal chaos emerging from Turing patterns and solitons display distinctive dynamical features. Experimental spectra of chaotic Kerr combs are also presented for both cases, in excellent agreement with theoretical spectra.
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