Observation of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence induced by breather solitons in an optical microresonator

C Bao, JA Jaramillo-Villegas, Y Xuan, DE Leaird, M Qi… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
Physical review letters, 2016APS
We present, experimentally and numerically, the observation of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam
recurrence induced by breather solitons in a high-Q SiN microresonator. Breather solitons
can be excited by increasing the pump power at a relatively small pump phase detuning in
microresonators. Out of phase power evolution is observed for groups of comb lines around
the center of the spectrum compared to groups of lines in the spectral wings. The evolution
of the power spectrum is not symmetric with respect to the spectrum center. Numerical …
We present, experimentally and numerically, the observation of Fermi-Pasta-Ulam recurrence induced by breather solitons in a high- SiN microresonator. Breather solitons can be excited by increasing the pump power at a relatively small pump phase detuning in microresonators. Out of phase power evolution is observed for groups of comb lines around the center of the spectrum compared to groups of lines in the spectral wings. The evolution of the power spectrum is not symmetric with respect to the spectrum center. Numerical simulations based on the generalized Lugiato-Lefever equation are in good agreement with the experimental results and unveil the role of stimulated Raman scattering in the symmetry breaking of the power spectrum evolution. Our results show that optical microresonators can be exploited as a powerful platform for the exploration of soliton dynamics.
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