Dissipative solitons are well known as representative nonlinear localized wave packets
resulting from the composite balance of dispersion, nonlinearity, gain and loss in optical …

Within optical microresonators, the Kerr interaction of photons can lead to symmetry
breaking of optical modes. In a ring resonator, this leads to the interesting effect that light …

Symmetry breaking of light states is of interest for the understanding of nonlinear optics,
photonic circuits, telecom applications and optical pulse generation. Here we demonstrate …

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 …

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 …

Symmetry and symmetry breaking of light states play an important role in photonic integrated
circuits and have recently attracted lots of research interest that is relevant to the …

Microresonator-based degenerate optical parametric oscillation (DOPO) has recently been
explored as a compelling platform for all-optical computing and quantum information …

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things and big data, integrated optical switches
are gaining prominence for applications in on-chip optical computing, optical memories, and …

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 …

We exploit polarization self-rotation (PSR) in atomic rubidium vapor to observe spontaneous
symmetry breaking and bistability of polarization patterns. We pump the vapor cell with …