Fig. 3: Input power—cavity detuning parameter space.
From: Multi-stage spontaneous symmetry breaking of light in Kerr ring resonators
The dark blue region corresponds to fully symmetric stable solutions, the light blue region to two asymmetric pairs of symmetric fields, the green region to a single pair of symmetric fields, with the remaining two fields being both asymmetric to each other and to the symmetric pair, and finally the yellow region corresponds to four fully asymmetric fields. Also included is an orange overlay which indicates the regions where the fields are unstable to temporal oscillations. Red lines indicate the slices of the scan shown in Figs. 2, 4 and 5 respectively.
