Abstract

A coherently pumped, passive cavity supports, in the normal dispersion regime, the propagation of still interlocked fronts or switching waves that form invariant localized temporal structures. We address theoretically the problem of the excitation of this type of wave packet. First, we map all the dynamical behaviors of the switching waves as a function of accessible parameters, namely, the cavity detuning and input energy deficiency, using box-like excitation of the intracavity field. Then we show how a good degree of control can be obtained by applying a negative or positive external pulsed excitation.

© 2021 Optical Society of America

Temporal characteristics of stationary switching waves in a normal dispersion pulsed-pump fiber cavity

Matthew Macnaughtan, Miro Erkintalo, Stéphane Coen, Stuart Murdoch, and Yiqing Xu
Opt. Lett. 48(15) 4097-4100 (2023)

Origin and stability of dark pulse Kerr combs in normal dispersion resonators

Pedro Parra-Rivas, Damià Gomila, Edgar Knobloch, Stéphane Coen, and Lendert Gelens
Opt. Lett. 41(11) 2402-2405 (2016)

Frequency comb generation in a pulse-pumped normal dispersion Kerr mini-resonator

Yiqing Xu, Alexander Sharples, Julien Fatome, Stéphane Coen, Miro Erkintalo, and Stuart G. Murdoch
Opt. Lett. 46(3) 512-515 (2021)

Multimode resonance transition to collapsed snaking in normal dispersive Kerr cavities: bright versus dark solitons

Yifan Sun, Stefan Wabnitz, and Pedro Parra-Rivas
Opt. Lett. 48(20) 5403-5406 (2023)

Square-wave generation in vertical external-cavity Kerr-Gires-Tournois interferometers

Elias R. Koch, Thomas G. Seidel, Svetlana V. Gurevich, and Julien Javaloyes
Opt. Lett. 47(17) 4343-4346 (2022)