On the transition to secondary Kerr combs in whispering-gallery mode resonators

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2019

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Aurélien Coillet, Zhen Qi, Irina V. Balakireva, Guoping Lin, Curtis R. Menyuk, and Yanne K. Chembo, On the transition to secondary Kerr combs in whispering-gallery mode resonators, Optics Letters Vol. 44, Issue 12, pp. 3078-3081 (2019) , https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.003078

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Abstract

We demonstrate that extended dissipative structures in Kerr-nonlinear whispering-gallery mode resonators undergo a spatiotemporal instability, as the pumping parameters are varied. We show that the dynamics of the patterns beyond this bifurcation yield specific Kerr comb and sub-comb spectra that can be subjected to a phase of frequency-locking when optimal conditions are met. Our numerical results are found to be in agreement with experimental measurements.