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Soliton-comb structures in ring-shaped optical microresonators: generation, reconstruction and stability

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Characteristic features of soliton-comb structures in optical microresonators are investigated in normal and anomalous dispersion regimes, when the detuning parameter is varied over a broad range of values. The study rests on the assumption that soliton combs are self-organized ensemble of co-propagating coherently entangled states of light, and depending on the group-velocity dispersion they can result from space-division multiplexing of single-bright and single-dark solitons. Their analytical and numerical reconstruction schemes are discussed, while a linear-stability analysis leads to a 2 × 2 Lamé eigenvalue problem whose boundstate spectrum is composed of a Goldstone-type translation mode and stable internal modes, as well as unstable decaying modes and growing modes. A power-spectral analysis of the three distinct possible soliton crystals enables us probe their inner structures in the frequency domain, and unveil the existence of structural defects in their power spectra.

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Dikandé Bitha, R.D., Dikandé, A.M. Soliton-comb structures in ring-shaped optical microresonators: generation, reconstruction and stability. Eur. Phys. J. D 73, 152 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2019-100052-y

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