Nonreciprocal optical solitons in a spinning Kerr resonator

分类： 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间： 2023-02-19

Baijun Li Şahin. K. Özdemir Xun-Wei Xu Lin Zhang Le-Man Kuang Hui Jing

摘要： We propose a spinning nonlinear resonator as an experimentally accessible platform to achieve nonreciprocal control of optical solitons. Nonreciprocity here results from the relativistic Sagnac-Fizeau optical drag effect, which is different for pump fields propagating in the spinning direction or in the direction opposite to it. We show that in a spinning Kerr resonator, different soliton states appear for the input fields in different directions. These nonreciprocal solitons are more stable against losses induced by inter-modal coupling between clockwise and counterclockwise modes of the resonator. Our work builds a bridge between nonreciprocal physics and soliton science, providing a promising route towards achieving soliton-wave optical isolators and one-way soliton communications.

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