Feedback-Controlled Self-Trapping of Solitons
Abstract
Chip-scale microresonator-based frequency combs, commonly referred to as microcombs, are promising sources for field-deployable metrology applications. However, intrinsic microresonator noise can make it difficult to generate microcombs with sufficiently low noise for applications. A widely used approach to overcome this limitation is to trap the DKS in the microresonator by phase-modulating the pump laser, although integrating a low-noise modulation reference in a fully on-chip platform remains challenging. Here, we propose an optoelectronic self-trapping scheme in which the impact of intrinsic microresonator noise on microcomb repetition-rate jitter is suppressed through feedback-controlled phase modulation of the driving laser so that the intrinsic noise of the laser sets the ultimate performance limit. This modification eliminates the need for an external low-phase-noise RF source, thereby enabling chip integration. We develop both analytical and numerical models for the proposed system and benchmark its performance against conventional externally referenced bulk implementations, showing that the proposed approach achieves comparable microcomb noise suppression while maintaining chip-scale compatibility.
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BibTeX
@misc{islam2026feedbackcontrolled,
title = {{Feedback-Controlled Self-Trapping of Solitons}},
author = {Raonaqul Islam and Pradyoth Shandilya and Yunxiang Song and Alioune Niang and Gary Carter and Thomas Carruthers and Curtis Menyuk and Ergun Simsek},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.18191},
eprint = {2610.18191},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18191},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Feedback-Controlled Self-Trapping of Solitons
AU - Raonaqul Islam
AU - Pradyoth Shandilya
AU - Yunxiang Song
AU - Alioune Niang
AU - Gary Carter
AU - Thomas Carruthers
AU - Curtis Menyuk
AU - Ergun Simsek
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.18191
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18191
AB - Chip-scale microresonator-based frequency combs, commonly referred to as microcombs, are promising sources for field-deployable metrology applications. However, intrinsic microresonator noise can make it difficult to generate microcombs with sufficiently low noise for applications. A widely used approach to overcome this limitation is to trap the DKS in the microresonator by phase-modulating the pump laser, although integrating a low-noise modulation reference in a fully on-chip platform remains challenging. Here, we propose an optoelectronic self-trapping scheme in which the impact of intrinsic microresonator noise on microcomb repetition-rate jitter is suppressed through feedback-controlled phase modulation of the driving laser so that the intrinsic noise of the laser sets the ultimate performance limit. This modification eliminates the need for an external low-phase-noise RF source, thereby enabling chip integration. We develop both analytical and numerical models for the proposed system and benchmark its performance against conventional externally referenced bulk implementations, showing that the proposed approach achieves comparable microcomb noise suppression while maintaining chip-scale compatibility.
ER -