Kerr Superoscillator Model for Microresonator Frequency Combs
arXiv:1703.02878 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.033835
Abstract
Microresonator-based optical frequency combs, or "microcombs", have attracted lots of attention in the last few years thanks to their promising applications in telecommunications, spectroscopy and optical clocks. The process of comb generation in microresonators can be modelled in the frequency domain using coupled mode equations, and has also recently been successfully described in the time domain using a nonlinear Schrödinger equation known as the Lugiato-Lefever equation. Though time-domain approaches have brought many interesting insights for the understanding of microcombs, an intuitive frequency-domain model has not yet been established. In this work we present a frequency-domain model of microcombs that describes the overall structure of the spectra in terms of a few collective excitations of groups of neighboring comb lines, which we term "superoscillators". This approach ties in nicely with the recently-developed time-domain model based on soliton crystals, and links the microcomb generation process with frequency response theory.
arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures
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