Di Lauro, Luigi, Li, Jin, Moss, David J, Morandotti, Roberto, Chu, Sai T, Peccianti, Marco and Pasquazi, Alessia (2017) Parametric control of thermal self-pulsation in micro-cavities. Optics Letters, 42 (17). pp. 3407-3410. ISSN 0146-9592

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Abstract

We propose a scheme for bifurcation control in micro-cavities based on the interplay between the ultrafast Kerr effect and a slow nonlinearity, such as thermo-optical, free-carriers-induced, or opto-mechanical one. We demonstrate that Hopf bifurcations can be efficiently controlled with a low energy signal via four-wave mixing. Our results show that new strategies are possible for designing efficient micro-cavity-based oscillators and sensors. Moreover, they provide new understanding of the effect of coherent wave mixing in the thermal stability regions of optical micro-cavities, fundamental for micro-resonator-based applications in communications, sensing, and metrology, including optical micro-combs.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Bistability; Instabilities and chaos; Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; Photothermal effects ; Microcavities
Schools and Departments:	School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QC Physics > QC0350 Optics. Light
Depositing User:	Luigi Di Lauro
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2017 10:59
Last Modified:	13 Mar 2018 12:53
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70335

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