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Polychromatic Cherenkov Radiation Induced Group Velocity Symmetry Breaking in Counterpropagating Dissipative Kerr Solitons

Weng, Wenle  
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Bouchand, Romain  
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Lucas, Erwan  
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December 17, 2019
Physical Review Letters

High-order-dispersion-induced dispersive waves emitted by dissipative Kerr solitons are frequently observed in microresonator frequency comb generation. Also known as soliton Cherenkov radiation, this type of dispersive wave plays a critical role in comb spectrum broadening as well as the formation of soliton bound states. Here, we report the experimental observation of symmetry breaking in the group velocity of counterpropagating solitons in a crystalline microresonator. Induced by the polychromatic Cherenkov radiation, soliton bound states are formed, showing different group velocities with different spatiotemporal separations between constituent solitons. By bidirectionally pumping the microresonator with laser fields of equal power and frequency, we demonstrate the degeneracy lifting of repetition rates of the counterpropagating solitons. Our work not only shines new light on the impact of dispersive waves in nonlinear cavities, but also introduces a novel approach to develop compact dual-comb spectrometers.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.253902
Web of Science ID

WOS:000503050000006

Author(s)
Weng, Wenle  
Bouchand, Romain  
Lucas, Erwan  
Kippenberg, Tobias J.  
Date Issued

2019-12-17

Publisher

AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Published in
Physical Review Letters
Volume

123

Issue

25

Article Number

253902

Subjects

Physics, Multidisciplinary

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Physics

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dispersive waves

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generation

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REVIEWED

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