Abstract
We demonstrate spontaneous symmetry breaking of counter-propagating states of light in optical microresonators. The symmetry breaking is induced by nonlinear interaction of counterpropagating light and leads to a splitting of clockwise and counterclockwise resonance frequencies.
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