Bifurcation structure of soliton self-injection locking in microresonators
Self-injection locking (SIL) of a diode laser to a high-quality-factor microresonator has recently become increasingly important in hybrid integrated photonics, providing access to compact sub-Hz linewidth lasers. It was also shown to facilitate access to dissipative Kerr solitons—the key to a low-noise coherent frequency comb on a photonic chip. However, the existence and stability ranges of SIL soliton states in experimentally controlled parameters are still not fully understood. Here we study the bifurcation structure of solutions in a model of soliton SIL in the weak-backscattering limit. We show that SIL produces soliton-number-dependent existence ranges of multi-soliton solutions in free-laser detuning and feedback phase parameters. We identify exclusive single-soliton existence regions and demonstrate dynamical access to single solitons in this region by direct numerical simulations using prescribed parameter sweeps.
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Deshmukh, S., Schneider, T. M., & Tikan, A. (2026). Bifurcation structure of soliton self-injection locking in microresonators. Optics Letters, 51(17). https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.608452
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
2026-08-19
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