Generation of Vector Platicons and Hybrid Soliton-Platicon Complexes in Optical Microresonators via Modulated Pump

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates numerically how to generate vector platicons and hybrid soliton-platicon complexes in optical microresonators using modulated pump techniques, with control via pump polarization and spectral parameters.

Contribution

It introduces a novel numerical method for generating vector platicons and hybrid complexes in microresonators under normal GVD conditions, highlighting control mechanisms.

Findings

Vector platicons can be generated with orthogonally polarized components.

Hybrid soliton-platicon complexes can be excited with alternating GVD signs.

Generation depends on pump polarization and spectral interval.

Abstract

We demonstrate numerically the possibility of generation of vector platicons having orthogonally polarized components by the modulated pump at normal GVD. Dynamics of this process can be controlled by pump polarization and depends on both the spectral interval between pumped modes and the difference of their FSRs. We also show the possibility of the excitation of the hybrid soliton-platicon complexes if pumped modes have alternating signs of the GVD coefficient.