Patent 10923874 was granted and assigned to École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention concerns a multiple soliton comb generation method comprising the steps of:providing a single optical resonator configured to support a plurality of distinct spatial modes in which light can propagate;providing an optical pump laser source;simultaneously optically pumping a plurality of distinct spatial modes of the single optical resonator to simultaneously generate independent soliton states in the distinct spatial modes and generate a plurality of frequency combs.