Publications (18)
Nonlinear topological symmetry protection in a dissipative system
Stéphane Coen, Bruno Garbin, Gang Xu +6
We report an experimental and theoretical investigation of a system whose dynamics is dominated by an intricate interplay between three key concepts of modern physics: topology, no…
Success rate analysis of the response of an excitable laser to periodic perturbations
Jordi Tiana-Alsina, Bruno Garbin, Stephane Barland +1
We use statistical tools to characterize the response of an excitable system to periodic perturbations. The system is an optically injected semiconductor laser under pulsed perturb…
Impact of de-synchronization and drift on soliton-based Kerr frequency combs in the presence of pulsed driving fields
Ian Hendry, Bruno Garbin, Stuart G. Murdoch +2
Pulsed driving of Kerr microresonators represents a promising avenue for the efficient generation of soliton states associated with coherent optical frequency combs. The underlying…
Refractory period of an excitable semiconductor laser with optical injection
Bruno Garbin, Axel Dolcemascolo, Franco Prati +3
Injection-locked semiconductor lasers can be brought to a neuron-like excitable regime when parameters are set close to the unlocking transition. Here we study experimentally the r…
Direct observation of zero modes in a non-Hermitian nanocavity array
Flore Hentinger, Melissa Hedir, Bruno Garbin +5
Zero modes are symmetry protected ones whose energy eigenvalues have zero real parts. In Hermitian arrays, they arise as a consequence of the sublattice symmetry, implying that the…
Coexistence and interactions between nonlinear states with different polarizations in a monochromatically driven passive Kerr resonator
Alexander U. Nielsen, Bruno Garbin, Stéphane Coen +2
We report on experimental observations of coexistence and interactions between nonlinear states with different polarizations in a passive Kerr resonator driven at a single carrier…
Emission of intense resonant radiation by dispersion-managed Kerr cavity solitons
Alexander U. Nielsen, Bruno Garbin, Stéphane Coen +2
We report on an experimental and numerical study of temporal Kerr cavity soliton dynamics in dispersion-managed fiber ring resonators. We find that dispersion management can signif…
Experimental and numerical investigations of switching wave dynamics in a normally dispersive fiber ring resonator
Bruno Garbin, Yadong Wang, Stuart G. Murdoch +3
Optical frequency combs generated in normally dispersive Kerr microresonators have been observed to correspond to dark temporal structures, and theoretically explained as interlock…
Spontaneous symmetry breaking of dissipative optical solitons in a two-component Kerr resonator
Gang Xu, Alexander Nielsen, Bruno Garbin +6
Dissipative solitons are self-localised structures that can persist indefinitely in "open" systems characterised by continual exchange of energy and/or matter with the environment.…
Self-symmetrization of symmetry-breaking dynamics in passive Kerr resonators
Julien Fatome, Gang Xu, Bruno Garbin +5
The realization of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) requires a system that exhibits a near perfect symmetry. SSB manifests itself through a pitchfork bifurcation, but that bifur…
Polarization modulation instability in a nonlinear fiber Kerr resonator
Julien Fatome, Bertrand Kibler, François Leo +6
We report on the experimental and numerical observation of polarization modulation instability (PMI) in a nonlinear fiber Kerr resonator. This phenomenon is phased-matched through…
Non-Hermitian zero mode laser in a nanophotonic trimer
Kaiwen Ji, Bruno Garbin, Melissa Hedir +2
Symmetry-protected zero modes in arrays of coupled optical elements have attracted considerable attention because they are expected to be robust against coupling disorders. In the…
Asymmetric balance in symmetry breaking
Bruno Garbin, Julien Fatome, Gian-Luca Oppo +3
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is central to our understanding of physics and explains many natural phenomena, from cosmic scales to subatomic particles. Its use for applications re…
Resonator neuron and triggering multipulse excitability in laser with injected signal
Axel Dolcemascolo, Bruno Garbin, Bertand Peyce +2
Semiconductor lasers with coherent forcing are expected to behave similarly to simple neuron models in response to external perturbations, as long as the physics describing them ca…
Spontaneous symmetry breaking and trapping of temporal Kerr cavity solitons by pulsed or amplitude modulated driving fields
Ian Hendry, Wei Chen, Yadong Wang +6
We report on a systematic study of temporal Kerr cavity soliton dynamics in the presence of pulsed or amplitude modulated driving fields. In stark contrast to the more extensively…
Square wave excitability in quantum dot lasers under optical injection
Michael Dillane, Bogalsaw Tykalewicz, David Goulding +3
Quantum dot lasers display many unique dynamic phenomena when optically injected. Bistability has been predicted in a region of high injection strength. We show experimentally, rat…
Writing and Erasing of Temporal Kerr Cavity Solitons via Intensity Modulation of the Cavity Driving Field
Yadong Wang, Bruno Garbin, François Leo +3
We experimentally and numerically study the use of intensity modulation for the controlled addressing of temporal Kerr cavity solitons. Using a coherently driven fiber ring resonat…
Dissipative polarization domain walls in a passive driven Kerr resonator
Bruno Garbin, Julien Fatome, Gian-Luca Oppo +3
Using a passive driven nonlinear optical fiber ring resonator, we report the experimental realization of dissipative polarization domain walls. The domain walls arise through a sym…