Spontaneous symmetry breaking of dissipative optical solitons in a two-component Kerr resonator

Dissipative solitons and their symmetry breaking is important for photonic applications. Here the authors show that dissipative solitons can undergo spontaneous symmetry breaking in a two-component nonlinear optical ring resonator, resulting in the coexistence of distinct vectorial solitons with asy...

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Main Authors: Gang Xu, Alexander U. Nielsen, Bruno Garbin, Lewis Hill, Gian-Luca Oppo, Julien Fatome, Stuart G. Murdoch, Stéphane Coen, Miro Erkintalo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24251-0