Self-switching Kerr oscillations of counterpropagating light in microresonators

Woodley, Michael T.M. and Hill, Lewis and Del Bino, Leonardo and Oppo, Gian-Luca and Del’Haye, Pascal (2021) Self-switching Kerr oscillations of counterpropagating light in microresonators. Physical Review Letters, 126. 043901. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.023904)

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Abstract

We report the experimental and numerical observation of oscillatory antiphase switching between counterpropagating light beams in Kerr ring microresonators, where dominance between the intensities of the two beams is periodically or chaotically exchanged. Self-switching occurs in balanced regimes of operation and is well captured by a simple coupled dynamical system featuring only the self- and cross-phase Kerr nonlinearities. Switching phenomena are due to temporal instabilities of symmetry-broken states combined with attractor merging, which restores the broken symmetry on average. Self-switching of counterpropagating light is robust for realizing controllable, all-optical generation of waveforms, signal encoding, and chaotic cryptography.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:75330
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    29 January 2021
    Published
    28 December 2020
    Accepted
    Subjects:Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:08 Feb 2021 09:26
    Last modified:18 Apr 2024 00:28
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/75330
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