Reversible Self-Replication of Spatio-Temporal Kerr Cavity Patterns

Autor:	Ivars, Salim B., Kartashov, Yaroslav V., Torner, Lluis, Conejero, J. Alberto, Milián, Carles
Rok vydání:	2021
Předmět:	Physics - Optics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.063903
Popis:	We uncover a novel and robust phenomenon that causes the gradual self-replication of spatiotemporal Kerr cavity patterns in cylindrical microresonators. These patterns are inherently synchronised multi-frequency combs. Under proper conditions, the axially-localized nature of the patterns leads to a fundamental drift instability that induces transitions amongst patterns with a different number of rows. Self-replications, thus, result in the stepwise addition or removal of individual combs along the cylinder's axis. Transitions occur in a fully reversible and, consequently, deterministic way. The phenomenon puts forward a novel paradigm for Kerr frequency comb formation and reveals important insights into the physics of multi-dimensional nonlinear patterns. Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures, to appear in Physical Review Letters
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05729 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv