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Main Authors: Ji, Qing-Xin, Hou, Hanfei, Ge, Jinhao, Yu, Yan, Gao, Maodong, Jin, Warren, Guo, Joel, Wu, Lue, Liu, Peng, Feshali, Avi, Paniccia, Mario, Bowers, John, Vahala, Kerry
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18058
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  • In microcombs, solitons can drive non-soliton-forming modes to induce optical gain. Under specific conditions, a regenerative secondary temporal pulse coinciding in time and space with the exciting soliton pulse will form at a new spectral location. A mechanism involving Kerr-induced pulse interactions has been proposed theoretically, leading to multicolor solitons containing constituent phase-locked pulses. However, the occurrence of this phenomenon requires dispersion conditions that are not naturally satisfied in conventional optical microresonators. Here, we report the experimental observation of multicolor pulses from a single optical pump in a way that is closely related to the concept of multicolor solitons. The individual soliton pulses share the same repetition rate and could potentially be fully phase-locked. They are generated using interband coupling in a compound resonator.