can thermally drift on the order of a few GHz, compared to Kerr effect shifts of a few MHz.
However, the Kerr effect, and in particular cross-phase modulation (XPM), is responsible for
important effects seen in microresonators. For instance, it can be indirectly observed in
solitons [2], as well as being the primary mechanism driving symmetry breaking of counter-
propagating light in microresonators [3–5]. By direct measurement, the effective mode area …