Abstract
AbstractRecent advances in of soliton microcombs have shown great promise to revolutionize many important areas such as optical communication, spectroscopic sensing, optical clock, and frequency synthesis. A largely tunable comb line spacing is crucial for the practical application of soliton microcombs, which unfortunately is challenging to realize for an on‐chip monolithic microresonators. The recently discovered perfect soliton crystal (PSC) offers a convenient route to tune the comb line spacing. However, excitation of a PSC is generally stochastic by its nature and accessing a certain PSC state requires delicate tuning procedure. Here the on‐demand generation of PSCs in a lithium niobate microresonator is demonstrated. The unique device characteristics allow to produce a variety of PSCs and to switch between different PSC states, deterministically and repetitively. The device is utilized to show arbitrary dialing of the comb line spacing from 1 to 11 times of the free‐spectral range of the resonator. The demonstration of PSCs on demand may now open up a great avenue for flexibly controlling the repetition rate of soliton pulses, which would significantly enhance and extend the application potential of soliton microcombs for communication, signal processing, and sensing.
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