Kerr Frequency Combs in a Bichromatically Pumped Nonlinear Fiber Ring Cavity

Conference: ECOC 2016 - 42nd European Conference on Optical Communication
09/18/2016 - 09/22/2016 at Düsseldorf, Deutschland

Proceedings: ECOC 2016

Pages: 3Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Ceoldo, Davide; Modotto, Daniele (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy)
Bendahmane, Abdelkrim; Fatome, Julien; Millot, Guy; Kibler, Bertrand (Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne, UMR6303 CNRS-UBFC, Dijon, France)
Hansson, Tobias (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy & Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Wabnitz, Stefan (Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Università di Brescia, Brescia, Italy & CNR-INO, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Via Campi Flegrei 34, 80078 Pozzuoli (NA), Italy)

Abstract:
We report numerical and experimental studies of four-wave mixing processes emerging from dual-frequency pumping of a passive fibre ring cavity. We observe the emission of a periodic train of nearly-background-free soliton pulses associated with Kerr frequency combs.