Self-switching Kerr oscillations of counter-propagating light in microresonators
arXiv:2005.01411 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.043901
Abstract
We report the experimental observation of oscillatory antiphase switching between counter-propagating light beams in Kerr ring microresonators, including the emergence of periodic behaviour from a chaotic regime. 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 that restores the broken symmetry on average. Self-switching of counter-propagating light is robust for realising controllable, all-optical generation of waveforms, signal encoding and chaotic cryptography.
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