Paper 14092-71
Paper 14092-71
Exceptional points and bifurcations in single Kerr ring and Fabry-Perot resonators: new insights for integrated photonics
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Abstract
We reveal that bifurcations occurring at the limits of optical bistability and the spontaneous symmetry breaking in Kerr ring and Fabry-Perot resonators correspond to exceptional points in an auxiliary linear non-Hermitian system. This insight enables new approaches for controlling nonlinear photonic devices, integrated photonics, optical computing, and frequency comb generation.
Presenter
Juan Diego Mazo-Vásquez
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light (Germany), Friedrich Alexander University (Germany)
Juan Diego Mazo Vásquez completed his Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of Antioquia in Colombia in 2020. In 2022, he was then awarded a scholarship from the Max Planck School of Photonics to pursue a Master’s degree in the Karlsruhe School of Optics and Photonics, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2024, he began his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, and the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany. His current research explores nonlinear optics, non-Hermitian physics, and photonics.
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