Adiabatic growing, multistability, and control of soliton-comb states in χ(2) microresonators for pumping into second-harmonic modes1)
E. Podivilov+, S. Smirnov*, B. Sturman+ 2)
+Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
*Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract
Realization of soliton-combs regimes in χ(2)
microresonators is an important and timely problem.
No regular techniques for its solution is known so far. We propose and
develop a general method of how
to achieve and control numerous stable soliton states possessing
spectrally broad combs in the first
harmonic (FH) and second harmonic (SH) frequency domains. The method is
based on combining special
choices of experimentally controlled frequency detunings with a slow
adiabatic increase of the pump
power starting from near-threshold values. This ensures stability and
accessibility of the steady-state
regimes. The found new nonlinear solutions are relevant to pumping into
SH modes. This allows for
the excitation of single- and multi-soliton states of different spatial
symmetry - periodic and antiperiodic.