Abstract
We demonstrate experimentally spontaneous chirality in a whispering-gallery microresonator. Above an input threshold, the intensities of clockwise and counterclockwise propagating waves grow unbalanced, due to the Kerr-nonlinearity-modulated coupling between the counter-propagating waves.
© 2017 Optical Society of America
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