Coupling dynamics of dissipative localized structures: From polarized vector solitons to soliton molecules

R Xia, Y Li, X Tang, G Xu - Optics Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Dissipative solitons are well known as representative nonlinear localized wave packets
resulting from the composite balance of dispersion, nonlinearity, gain and loss in optical …

Symmetry broken vectorial Kerr frequency combs from Fabry-Pérot resonators

L Hill, EM Hirmer, G Campbell, T Bi, A Ghosh… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of a pair of vector temporal cavity solitons has been
established as a paradigm to modulate optical frequency combs, and finds many …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking of coupled Fabry–Pérot nanocavities

J Mai, X Huang, X Guo, H Fan, KW Cheah - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Ring cavities are quickly emerging as preferential platforms to investigate spontaneous
symmetry breaking. However, research on handedness polarisation splitting within Kerr …

Floquet-engineered nonlinearities and controllable pair-hopping processes: From optical Kerr cavities to correlated quantum matter

N Goldman, OK Diessel, L Barbiero, M Prüfer… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
This work explores the possibility of creating and controlling unconventional nonlinearities
by periodic driving, in a broad class of systems described by the nonlinear Schrödinger …

Frequency comb enhancement via the self-crystallization of vectorial cavity solitons

GN Campbell, L Hill, P Del'Haye, GL Oppo - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Long-range interactions between dark vectorial temporal cavity solitons are induced by the
formation of patterns via spontaneous symmetry breaking of orthogonally polarized fields in …

Random number generation using spontaneous symmetry breaking in a Kerr resonator

L Quinn, G Xu, Y Xu, Z Li, J Fatome, SG Murdoch… - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate an all-optical random number generator based on spontaneous symmetry
breaking in a coherently driven Kerr resonator. Random bit sequences are generated by …

Insensitive edge solitons in a non-Hermitian topological lattice

B Many Manda, V Achilleos - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
In this Letter, we demonstrate that the synergetic interplay of topology, nonreciprocity, and
nonlinearity is capable of unprecedented effects. We focus on a nonreciprocal variant of the …

Insensitive edge solitons in non-Hermitian topological lattices

BM Manda, V Achilleos - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.05441, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we demonstrate that the synergetic interplay of topology, nonreciprocity and
nonlinearity is capable of unprecedented effects. We focus on a nonreciprocal variant of the …

Asymmetrical temporal dynamics of edge modes in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice with Kerr nonlinearity

GH Alharbi, S Wong, Y Gong, SS Oh - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Optical bistability and oscillating phases exist in a Sagnac interferometer and a single ring
resonator made of a χ (3) nonlinear medium where the refractive indices are modulated by …

Temporal manipulation of period-2 polarization domain wall solitons in a nonlinear fiber Kerr resonator

J Fatome, N Berti, B Kibler, G Xu, SG Murdoch… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
We report on the experimental demonstration of temporal manipulations of dissipative
polarization domain wall solitons in a Kerr nonlinear resonator operated in a period-doubled …