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Soliton microcombs based on Kerr nonlinearity in microresonators have been a prominent miniaturized coherent light source. Here, for the first time, we demonstrate the existence of Kerr solitons in an optomechanical microresonator, for…

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We review our recent work on tunable, ultrahigh quality factor whispering-gallery-mode bottle microresonators and highlight their applications in nonlinear optics and in quantum optics experiments. Our resonators combine ultra-high quality…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. O'Shea , C. Junge , M. Poellinger , A. Vogler , A. Rauschenbeutel

We use weakly nonlinear geometric optics to study a model for the DC Kerr effect (the Kerr electro-optic effect), in which a light beam propagating through a material with strong nonlinear optical properties can have its polarization…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-05-05 Nikolas Eptaminitakis , Plamen Stefanov

Anisotropy endows topological aspects in optical systems and furnishes a platform to explore non-Hermitian physics, which can be harnessed for the polarization-selective amplification of light. Here, we show a zero-threshold Raman laser can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Avijit Dhara , Pritam Das , Devarshi Chakrabarty , Kritika Ghosh , Ayan Roy Chaudhuri , Sajal Dhara

We identify and discuss nonlinear phase noise arising in Kerr self-phase modulation of a coherent light pulse propagating through an attenuating medium with third-order nonlinearity in a dispersion-free setting. This phenomenon,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-29 Ludwig Kunz , Matteo G. A. Paris , Konrad Banaszek

We propose an efficient scheme for the generation of tunable optical waveguide based on atomic vapor in N -type configuration. We exploit both control field induced transparency and Kerr field induced absorption to produce a flexible probe…

Optics · Physics 2017-11-15 Sandeep Sharma , Tarak N. Dey

In the framework of the nonsecular perturbation theory based on the Bogoliubov averaging method, an optomechanical system with an asymmetric anharmonic mechanical resonator is studied. The cross-Kerr interaction and the Kerr-like…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 A. P. Saiko , R. Fedaruk , S. A. Markevich

We theoretically propose a scheme to realize a $n$-cavity-magnon polariton blockade in a cavity-magnon system by utilizing the Kerr nonlinearity. Cavity-magnon polaritons are hybrid quasiparticles formed by the strong coupling between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Zhe-Qi Yang , Xiao-Yu Bi , Zhi-Rong Zhong

Optical microcavities and metallic nanostructures have been shown to significantly modulate the dynamics and spectroscopic response of molecular systems. We present a study of the nonlinear optics of a model consisting of $N$ anharmonic…

A driven resonator with focusing Kerr nonlinearity shows stable localized structures in a region far from modulational instability. The stabilization mechanism is based on front interaction in bistable regime with an inhomogeneous injected…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-08-11 V. Odent , M. Tlidi , M. G. Clerc , E. Louvergneaux

Optical Fabry-Perot cavity with a movable mirror is a paradigmatic optomechanical systems. While usually the mirror is supported by a mechanical spring, it has been shown that it is possible to keep one of the mirrors in a stable…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-11 Satyam Shekhar Jha , Tal Carmon , Fan Cheng , Lev Deych

We report on the stationary and robust propagation of light beams with rather arbitrary and controllable intensity and dissipation transverse patterns in self-focusing Kerr media with nonlinear absorption. When nonlinear absorption is due…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-19 Miguel A. Porras , Carlos Ruiz-Jiménez , Márcio Carvalho

We analytically investigate transverse magnetic (TM) spatial bright solitons, as exact solutions of Maxwell's equations, propagating through nonlinear metamaterials whose linear dielectric permittivity is very close to zero and whose…

Optics · Physics 2013-05-29 Alessandro Ciattoni , Carlo Rizza , Elia Palange

We theoretically demonstrate how the resonant coupling between a pair of cavity-polaritons and a biexciton state can lead to a large single-photon Kerr nonlinearity in a semiconductor solid-state system. A fully analytical model of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Iacopo Carusotto , Thomas Volz , Atac Imamoglu

In this work, we investigate the steady-states of a fiber lasers mode-locked with a nonlinear amplifying loop-mirror that has an inherent amplitude noise-suppression mechanism. Due to the interaction of the sinusoidal transmission function…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-21 Marvin Edelmann , Yi Hua , Kemal Şafak , Franz X. Kärtner

We investigate the limits of intracavity absorption spectroscopy with nonlinear media. Using a common theoretical framework, we compare the detection of a trace gas within an undriven cavity with gain near and above threshold, a driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 John K. Stockton , Ari K. Tuchman

We generalize the projection to orthogonal function basis (including polarization modes) method for nonlinear (Kerr medium) fiber and use this method in a case of two-mode waveguide. We consider orthogonal Bessel functions basis that fit…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. B. Leble , B. Reichel

In this letter, we investigate a Yb-doped mode-locked fiber oscillator that uses coherent pulse division and recombination to avoid excessive nonlinear phase shifts. The mode-locking mechanism of the laser is based on the accumulation of a…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Marvin Edelmann , Yi Hua , Gabor Kulscar , Franz X. Kärtner

We introduce a passively-aligned, flexure-tuned cavity optomechanical system in which a membrane is positioned microns from one end mirror of a Fabry-Perot optical cavity. By displacing the membrane through gentle flexure of its silicon…