Abstract
Silicon nitride microresonators provide a potentially CMOS-compatible platform for optical frequency comb generation [1]. As in any high-Q microcavity, thermal effects strongly affect the dynamics. This is particularly true considering that typical continuous wave pump powers for microresonator comb generation operate in the 20-35 dBm range. Temporal bright solitons for instance are generated when the pump is on the red side of a resonance, a situation that is challenging to attain owing to the thermo-optic coefficient of most microresonator materials [2]. Active stabilization has been successfully demonstrated by fixing the soliton power at a certain stage in the initialization process [3] or by careful power kicking and detuning of the pump laser [4].
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