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Symmetry-Broken Cavity Solitons and Collective Polarization Conformity in Fabry-Perot Kerr Resonators
Yohann G. Sanvert, Abdullah Alabbadi, Lewis Hill +7
We report on the experimental generation of polarization symmetry-broken cavity solitons (CSs) in a passive, fiber-based, coherently-driven, Fabry-Perot (FP) Kerr resonator. Polari…
Symmetry Broken Vectorial Kerr Frequency Combs from Fabry-Pérot Resonators
Lewis Hill, Eva-Maria Hirmer, Graeme Campbell +4
Optical frequency combs find many applications in metrology, frequency standards, communications and photonic devices. We consider field polarization properties and describe a vect…
Dark solitons in Fabry-Perot resonators with Kerr media and normal dispersion
Graeme Neil Campbell, Lewis Hill, Pascal Del'Haye +1
Ranges of existence and stability of dark cavity-soliton stationary states in a Fabry-Perot resonator with a Kerr nonlinear medium and normal dispersion are determined. The Fabry-P…
4-field symmetry breakings in twin-resonator photonic isomers
Alekhya Ghosh, Lewis Hill, Gian-Luca Oppo +1
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…
On-the-fly precision spectroscopy with a dual-modulated tunable diode laser and Hz-level referencing to a cavity
Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Pascal Del'Haye
Advances in high-resolution laser spectroscopy have enabled many scientific breakthroughs in physics, chemistry, biology and astronomy. Optical frequency combs have pushed measurem…
Kerr Frequency Combs: A Million ways to fit light pulses into tiny rings
Aurélien Coillet, Shuangyou Zhang, Pascal Del'Haye
Frequency combs can be generated in millimeter-sized optical resonators thanks to their ability to store extremely high light intensities and the nonlinearity of their materials. N…
Room-Temperature Sputtered Ultralow-loss Silicon Nitride for Hybrid Photonic Integration
Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Irina Harder +5
Silicon-nitride-on-insulator photonic circuits have seen tremendous advances in many applications, such as on-chip frequency combs, Lidar, telecommunications, and spectroscopy. So…
Microresonator Soliton Frequency Combs in the Zero-Dispersion Regime
Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, Pascal Del'Haye
Chip-scale optical frequency combs have attracted significant research interest and can be used in applications ranging from precision spectroscopy to telecom channel generators an…
Switching fronts, plateaus and Kerr oscillations of counterpropagating light in ring resonators
Graeme N. Campbell, Shuangyou Zhang, Leonardo Del Bino +2
We characterise stationary fronts and dark solitons for counterpropagating waves in micro-ring and fibre resonators with two input fields, normal dispersion and nonlocal coupling.…
A Kerr Polarization Controller
Niall Moroney, Leonardo Del Bino, Shuangyou Zhang +10
Kerr-effect-induced changes of the polarization state of light are well known in pulsed laser systems. An example is nonlinear polarization rotation, which is critical to the opera…
Dark-Bright Soliton Bound States in a Microresonator
Shuangyou Zhang, Toby Bi, George N. Ghalanos +3
The recent discovery of dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators has facilitated the development of fully coherent, chip-scale frequency combs. In addition, dark soliton pulses…
Generalized Theory of Optical Resonator and Waveguide Modes and their Linear and Kerr Nonlinear Coupling
Jonathan M. Silver, Pascal Del'Haye
We derive a general theory of linear coupling and Kerr nonlinear coupling between modes of dielectric optical resonators from first principles. The treatment is not specific to a p…
Kerr-Nonlinearity-Induced Mode-Splitting in Optical Microresonators
George N. Ghalanos, Jonathan M. Silver, Leonardo Del Bino +5
The Kerr effect in optical microresonators plays an important role for integrated photonic devices and enables third harmonic generation, four-wave mixing, and the generation of mi…
Self-switching Kerr oscillations of counter-propagating light in microresonators
Michael T. M. Woodley, Lewis Hill, Leonardo Del Bino +2
We report the experimental observation of oscillatory antiphase switching between counter-propagating light beams in Kerr ring microresonators, including the emergence of periodic…
Logic Gates based on Interaction of Counterpropagating Light in Microresonators
Niall Moroney, Leonardo Del Bino, Michael T. M. Woodley +5
Optical logic has the potential to replace electronics with photonic circuits in applications for which optic-to-electronic conversion is impractical and for integrated all-optical…
Spectral Extension and Synchronisation of Microcombs in a Single Microresonator
Shuangyou Zhang, Jonathan Silver, Pascal DelHaye
We demonstrate that the optical spectrum of a soliton microcomb generated in a microresonator can be coherently extended by using bichromatic pumping: one pump with a frequency in…
Optical memories and switching dynamics of counterpropagating light states in microresonators
Leonardo Del Bino, Niall Moroney, Pascal Del'Haye
The Kerr nonlinearity can be a key enabler for many digital photonic circuits as it allows access to bistable states needed for all-optical memories and switches. A common techniqu…
Coherent suppression of backscattering in optical microresonators
Andreas Ø. Svela, Jonathan M. Silver, Leonardo Del Bino +4
As light propagates along a waveguide, a fraction of the field can be reflected by Rayleigh scatterers. In high-quality-factor whispering-gallery-mode microresonators, this intrins…
A Nonlinear Enhanced Microresonator Gyroscope
Jonathan M. Silver, Leonardo Del Bino, Michael T. M. Woodley +6
We demonstrate a novel optical microresonator gyroscope whose responsivity to rotation is enhanced by a factor of around by operating close to the critical point of a sponta…
Critical Dynamics of an Asymmetrically Bidirectionally Pumped Optical Microresonator
Jonathan M. Silver, Kenneth T. V. Grattan, Pascal Del'Haye
An optical ring resonator with third-order, or Kerr, nonlinearity will exhibit symmetry breaking between the two counterpropagating circulating powers when pumped with sufficient p…
Terahertz wave generation using a soliton microcomb
Shuangyou Zhang, Jonathan Silver, Xiaobang Shang +3
The Terahertz or millimeter wave frequency band (300 GHz - 3 THz) is spectrally located between microwaves and infrared light and has attracted significant interest for application…
Effects of self- and cross-phase modulation on the spontaneous symmetry breaking of light in ring resonators
Lewis Hill, Gian-Luca Oppo, Michael T. M. Woodley +1
We describe spontaneous symmetry breaking in the powers of two optical modes coupled into a ring resonator, using a pair of coupled Lorentzian equations, featuring tunable self- an…
Universal Symmetry Breaking Dynamics for the Kerr Interaction of Counter-Propagating Light in Dielectric Ring Resonators
Michael T. M. Woodley, Jonathan M. Silver, Lewis Hill +5
Spontaneous symmetry breaking is an important concept in many areas of physics. A fundamentally simple symmetry breaking mechanism in electrodynamics occurs between counter-propaga…
μW-Level Microresonator Solitons with Extended Stability Range Using an Auxiliary Laser
Shuangyou Zhang, Jonathan Silver, Leonardo Del Bino +6
The recent demonstration of dissipative Kerr solitons in microresonators has opened a new pathway for the generation of ultrashort pulses and low-noise frequency combs with gigaher…