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Quasinormal Modes of Optical Solitons

Christopher Burgess1, Sam Patrick2, Theo Torres2, Ruth Gregory2,3, and Friedrich König1,*

  • 1School of Physics and Astronomy, SUPA, University of St. Andrews, North Haugh, St. Andrews, KY16 9SS, United Kingdom
  • 2Department of Physics, King’s College London, The Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
  • 3Perimeter Institute, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada

  • *fewk@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053802 – Published 31 January, 2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.053802

Abstract

Quasinormal modes (QNMs) are essential for understanding the stability and resonances of open systems, with increasing prominence in black hole physics. We present here the first study of QNMs of optical potentials. We show that solitons can support QNMs, deriving a soliton perturbation equation and giving exact analytical expressions for the QNMs of fiber solitons. We discuss the boundary conditions in this intrinsically dispersive system and identify novel signatures of dispersion. From here, we discover a new analogy with black holes and describe a regime in which the soliton is a robust black hole simulator for light-ring phenomena. Our results invite a range of applications, from the description of optical pulse propagation with QNMs to the use of state-of-the-art technology from fiber optics to address questions in black hole physics, such as QNM spectral instabilities and the role of nonlinearities in ringdown.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 053802– Published 31 January, 2024
  • Received 22 September 2023
  • Accepted 2 January 2024
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