Universal Dynamics and Controlled Switching of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators

Karpov, MaximGuo, HairunLucas, ErwanKordts, ArnePfeiffer, Martin H. P.Brasch, VictorLihachev, GrigoryLobanov, Valery E.Gorodetsky, Michael L.Kippenberg, Tobias J.2017-02-172017-02-172017-02-17201610.1364/CLEO_QELS.2016.FM2A.2https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/134403WOS:000391286400297We discover a novel mechanism allowing for successive reduction of the number of dissipative Kerr solitons in optical microresonators. It is demonstrated that multiple and single soliton state can be deterministically accessed.Universal Dynamics and Controlled Switching of Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonatorstext::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper