Impact of Stimulated Raman Scattering on Dark Soliton Generation in a Silica Microresonator
arXiv:2210.07917 · doi:10.1088/2515-7647/aca8e1
Abstract
Generating a coherent optical frequency comb at an arbitrary wavelength is important for fields such as spectroscopy and optical communications. Dark solitons which are coherent states of optical frequency combs in normal dispersion microresonators can extend the operating wavelength and be excited via intermodal coupling. They have been investigated over the last decade due to their high conversion efficiency and deterministic excitation with no need for dispersion engineering. While the existence and dynamics of dark solitons has been examined extensively, requirements on the modal interaction for accessing the soliton state in the presence of a strong Raman interaction at near-IR wavelengths has been less explored. Here, analysis on the parametric and Raman gain in a silica microresonator is performed, revealing that parametric gain can be created by an additional frequency due to modal interaction and exceed the Raman gain. More complex interaction dynamics of the parametric and stimulated Raman scattering process is studied using numerical simulations based on the Lugiato-Lefever equation. It is found that exciting a dark soliton requires not only appropriate modal coupling but also a range of pump powers. The existence range of the dark soliton is analyzed as a function of pump power and detuning for given modal coupling conditions. We anticipate these results will benefit fields requiring optical frequency combs with high efficiency and selectable wavelength in a material with a strong Raman gain.
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