Nonlinear mode coupling in whispering-gallery-mode resonators

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2016-04-12

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D'Aguanno, Giuseppe; Menyuk, Curtis R.; Nonlinear mode coupling in whispering-gallery-mode resonators; Physical Review A 93, 043820 (2016); https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.93.043820

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Abstract

We present a first-principles derivation of the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations that govern the interaction between two families of modes with different transverse profiles in a generic whispering-gallery-mode resonator. We find regions of modulational instability and the existence of trains of bright solitons in both the normal and the anomalous dispersion regime.