Optical frequency combs / Frequency stabilized lasers and applications (3)

[ALPS20-04] Microresonator soliton frequency combs via cascaded Brillouin scattering

*Hao Zhang^1,2, Shuangyou Zhang², Toby Bi^2,3, George Ghalanos², Yaojing Zhang ², Haochen Yan^2,3, Arghadeep Pal^2,3, Jijun He¹, Shilong Pan¹, Pascal Del’Haye^2,3 (1. National Key Laboratory of Microwave Photonics, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, 3. Department of Physics, Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg)

We present Kerr soliton generation via a forward propagating second order Brillouin scattering process in a microresonator. The solitons repetition rates are independent from the Brillouin gain frequency shift (~10 GHz in fused silica).