Novel generation schemes for stable soliton states in optical microcavities

Abstract

The excitation of Kerr optical frequency combs (OFC) is frequently non-deterministic and remains a cumber-some problem in many practical situations. While standard techniques to generate Kerr solitons in passive resonators employ a continuous wave pump, recently pulsed pumping has also been proposed. In this study we individuate and classify OFC states in a phase space defined by an experimental set of coordinates and triggered by a general super-Gaussian chirped driving field. Our numerical analysis shows how the soliton drifts caused by the phase modulation of the input field accelerate the dynamics and convergence towards a stable soliton state.