Nonlinear nonreciprocity and directional bistability in a ring resonator with a quadratic nonlinear medium
- 9 November 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (19), 2145-2148
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.2145
Abstract
The mutual interaction of counterpropagating waves in a ring resonator containing a medium with second-order dispersive nonlinearity is studied. The theoretical treatment of nonreciprocal propagation is based upon the novel coupling of counterpropagating and mode-locked first- and second-harmonic waves. The experimentally observed transfer characteristics of a high-frequency model system reveal a directionally asymmetric bistability. This nonreciprocity can also be attributed in the time domain to the occurrence of dissipative structures, i.e., to solitons traveling within the resonator.Keywords
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