Spontaneous symmetry breaking of Kerr cavity solitons

Gang Xu,Alexander U. Nielsen,Bruno Garbin,Julien Fatome,Lewis Hill,Gian-Luca Oppo,Stuart G. Murdoch,Miro Erkintalo,Stéphane Coen

Spontaneous symmetry breaking of Kerr cavity solitons

2020

Gang Xu
Alexander U. Nielsen
Bruno Garbin
Julien Fatome
Lewis Hill
Gian-Luca Oppo
Stuart G. Murdoch
Miro Erkintalo
Stéphane Coen

We report numerical and experimental observations of spontaneous symmetry breaking of Kerr cavity solitons. We show that cavity solitons with mirror polarization states can co-exist and be individually addressed in a symmetric fiber ring resonator.

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Physics
Soliton
Spontaneous symmetry breaking
Condensed matter physics

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