Photon-photon polaritons in chi(2) microresonators
arXiv:2102.08977 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.L012017
Abstract
We consider a high-Q microresonator with nonlinearity under conditions when the coupling rates between the sidebands around the pump and second harmonic exceed the damping rates, implying the strong coupling regime (SC). Using the dressed-resonator approach we demonstrate that this regime leads to the dominance of the Hermitian part of the operator driving the side-band dynamics over its non-Hermitian part responsible for the parametric gain. This has allowed us to introduce and apply the cross-area concept of the polariton quasi-particles and define their effective masses in the context of ring-microresonators. We further use polaritons to predict the modified spectral response of the resonator to a weak probe field, and to reveal splitting of the bare-resonator resonances, avoided crossings, and Rabi dynamics. Polariton basis also allows deriving a discrete sequence of the parametric thresholds for the generation of sidebands of different orders.
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