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SCIENCE ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm6982
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- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Defense Sciences Office (DSO) [18AC00032]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research [FA9550-19-1-0250]
- European Union [812818]
- Swiss National Science Foundation [192293, 176563]
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This paper investigates the generation of dissipative solitons in coupled resonators and reveals the advantages of this system over conventional single-resonator platforms. It shows that the accessibility of solitons varies for symmetric and antisymmetric supermode families. The study also finds that the coupling between transverse modes in coupled resonators can be substantially suppressed, leading to avoided mode crossings.
A photonic dimer composed of two evanescently coupled high-Q microresonators is a fundamental element of multimode soliton lattices. It has demonstrated a variety of emergent nonlinear phenomena, including supermode soliton generation and soliton hopping. Here, we present another aspect of dissipative soliton generation in coupled resonators, revealing the advantages of this system over conventional single-resonator platforms. Namely, we show that the accessibility of solitons markedly varies for symmetric and antisymmetric supermode families. Linear measurements reveal that the coupling between transverse modes, giving rise to avoided mode crossings, can be substantially suppressed. We explain the origin of this phenomenon and show its influence on the dissipative Kerr soliton generation in lattices of coupled resonators of any type. Choosing an example of the topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, we demonstrate how the edge state can be protected from the interaction with higher--order modes, allowing for the formation of topological Kerr solitons.
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