Dissipative polarization domain walls in a passive coherently driven Kerr resonator

Garbin, Bruno and Fatome, Julien and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Erkintalo, Miro and Murdoch, Stuart G and Coen, Stéphane (2021) Dissipative polarization domain walls in a passive coherently driven Kerr resonator. Physical Review Letters, 126. 023904. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.023904)

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Abstract

Using a passive, coherently driven nonlinear optical fiber ring resonator, we report the experimental realization of dissipative polarization domain walls. The domain walls arise through a symmetry breaking bifurcation and consist of temporally localized structures where the amplitudes of the two polarization modes of the resonator interchange, segregating domains of orthogonal polarization states. We show that dissipative polarization domain walls can persist in the resonator without changing shape. We also demonstrate on-demand excitation, as well as pinning of domain walls at specific positions for arbitrary long times. Our results could prove useful for the analog simulation of ubiquitous domain-wall related phenomena, and pave the way to an all-optical buffer adapted to the transmission of topological bits.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:75228
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    15 January 2021
    Published
    7 December 2020
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:28 Jan 2021 17:11
    Last modified:20 Apr 2024 01:45
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75228
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