Spontaneous symmetry breaking of counterpropagating light in microresonators
| Autor: | Jonathan M. Silver, Sarah L. Stebbings, Leonardo Del Bino, Pascal Del'Haye |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Physics
business.industry Spontaneous symmetry breaking Physics::Optics Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences 010309 optics Nonlinear system Resonator Optics 0103 physical sciences 0210 nano-technology business Nonlinear Sciences::Pattern Formation and Solitons Lasing threshold Refractive index |
| Zdroj: | 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC). |
| Popis: | The Nonlinear interaction between counterpropagating light has attracted significant attention in the context of unidirectional lasing in ring resonators and in nonlinear loop mirrors. In this work we demonstrate that Kerr-nonlinearity-mediated interaction between counterpropagating light in a passive ultra-high-Q microresonator can produce spontaneous symmetry breaking. When sending light of the same frequency, polarisation, and power in counterpropagating directions into a microresonator we observe a resonance frequency splitting such that light will only couple into the resonator in one (randomly chosen) direction. |
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