2024/03/25 by Campbell, Graeme Neil, Hill, Lewis, Del'Haye, Pascal +1 · 2 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #Optics (physics.optics) #Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.16547
Long range interactions between dark vectorial temporal cavity solitons are induced though the spontaneous symmetry breaking of orthogonally polarized fields in ring resonators. Turing patterns of alternating polarizations form between adjacent solitons, pushing them apart so that a random distribution of solitons along the cavity length reaches equal equilibrium distances. Enhancement of the frequency comb is achieved through the spontaneous formation of regularly spaced soliton crystals, 'self-crystallization', with greater power and spacing of the spectral lines for increasing soliton numbers.