Discrete Phase Symmetry Discovered in Bichromatically Pumped Kerr Microresonators
Researchers analyzing bichromatically pumped Kerr microresonators have identified a discrete phase symmetry that governs the stationary states of these optical systems. The symmetry arises from four-wave mixing between pump modes and generates families of solutions related by phase transformations that preserve stability properties. This finding explains why possible stationary values form regular polygons in the complex plane, with the number of vertices determined by the mathematical relationship between mode indices and pump separation.
A new theoretical analysis of bichromatically pumped Kerr microresonators reveals an underlying discrete phase symmetry structure in their stationary solutions. The researchers demonstrate that the coupled-mode equations governing two-pump systems represent a special case of a more general model with equally spaced pump modes. Through discrete phase transformations that leave the governing equations invariant, any stationary solution generates a finite family of related solutions with identical stability properties. The possible stationary values for each mode form regular polygons in the complex plane, where the number of vertices depends on the order of the mode index in the group ℤₙ, with n representing the separation between pumped modes. This symmetry-based framework provides a unified explanation for the phase multistability observed in multimode Kerr resonators, showing that the discrete phase structure emerges from both nonlinear dynamics and the arithmetic relationship between mode indices and pump separation.
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Discrete phase symmetry of stationary states in bichromatically pumped Kerr microresonators
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