Temporal localized structures in optical resonators

Barland, S.; Coen, Stéphane; Erkintalo, Miro; Giudici, Massimo; Javaloyes, J.; Murdoch, Stuart G.

doi:10.1080/23746149.2017.1321501

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“…Coherently-driven, dispersive Kerr resonators have attracted considerable attention over the last few years [1][2][3][4][5]. Interest has in particular ensued from the realization that, despite being entirely passive and void of any saturable absorbers, such devices can sustain ultrashort pulses of light known as temporal Kerr cavity solitons (CSs) [6].…”

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Invited Article: Emission of intense resonant radiation by dispersion-managed Kerr cavity solitons

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We report on an experimental and numerical study of temporal Kerr cavity soliton dynamics in dispersion-managed fiber ring resonators. We find that dispersion management can significantly magnify the Kelly-like resonant radiation sidebands emitted by the solitons. Because of the underlying phase-matching conditions, the sideband amplitudes tend to increase with increasing pumpcavity detuning, ultimately limiting the range of detunings over which the solitons can exist. Our experimental findings show excellent agreement with numerical simulations. * anie911@aucklanduni.ac.nz † m.erkintalo@auckland.ac.nz arXiv:1809.07886v1 [physics.optics]

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Invited Article: Emission of intense resonant radiation by dispersion-managed Kerr cavity solitons

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“…Temporal CSs are phenomenologically akin to spatial localized structures [25] that have been extensively studied in diffractive resonators [26]. In particular, similarly to their spatial counterparts, temporal CSs exhibit a property known as "plasticity" [27]: inhomogeneities in the quasi-continuous background on top of which the CSs sit can cause motion along the dimension of localization.…”

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking and trapping of temporal Kerr cavity solitons by pulsed or amplitude-modulated driving fields

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We report on a systematic study of temporal Kerr cavity soliton dynamics in the presence of pulsed or amplitude modulated driving fields. In stark contrast to the more extensively studied case of phase modulations, we find that Kerr cavity solitons are not always attracted to maxima or minima of driving field amplitude inhomogeneities. Instead, we find that the solitons are attracted to temporal positions associated with specific driving field values that depend only on the cavity detuning. We describe our findings in light of a spontaneous symmetry breaking instability that physically ensues from a competition between coherent driving and nonlinear propagation effects. In addition to identifying a new type of Kerr cavity soliton behaviour, our results provide valuable insights to practical cavity configurations employing pulsed or amplitude modulated driving fields.

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“…Similarly, motion structures inside a supportive medium can irreversibly alter the structural information of the medium that is carrying them. Optical fibers can be shown to become irreversibly altered in their structure and potentials by propagating solitons in a way that similarly structured solitons out of later incoming light beams will be forming with high probability [45][46][47].…”

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On the Explicit Function of Life within a Physical Universe

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2021

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To describe the meaning of functionality in a universe before life evolved, existing etiological and systemic accounts of function are evaluated. Since the theory of function is only applicable in context with living beings and artifacts used by living beings and therefore cannot predict how a prebiotic form of functionality could evolve, a maintenance account for functionality is proposed. This account ascribes functionality to a structurally disposed property that increases the probability of maintenance or recurrence of the property in the surrounding selective environment. With the help of the maintenance account and a concept of physical information comprising kinetic and structural types of information, possible evolutionary processes preceding the evolution of life are explored. As important mechanisms in abiotic and prebiotic evolution, linear and non-linear mixing processes, as well as dynamics of solitary waves, are identified. Before the question of the meaning of life in prebiotic environments is renewed and an educated guess based on the elaborated arguments is made on the progress of evolution under the influencing impression of the living state, the evolution of functionality in different selective contexts is analyzed.

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Temporal localized structures in optical resonators

Cited by 16 publications

References 103 publications

Invited Article: Emission of intense resonant radiation by dispersion-managed Kerr cavity solitons

Invited Article: Emission of intense resonant radiation by dispersion-managed Kerr cavity solitons

Spontaneous symmetry breaking and trapping of temporal Kerr cavity solitons by pulsed or amplitude-modulated driving fields

On the Explicit Function of Life within a Physical Universe

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