Probing the Formation of Nonlinear Optical States with Free Electrons

• DOI: 10.1364/cleo_fs.2024.fw3p.3
• Publication Date: 2024-09-05T17:25:03Z
• Authors: Jan-Wilke Henke; Yujia Yang; F. Jasmin Kappert; Arslan S. Raja; Germaine Arend; Guanhao Huang; Armin Feist; Zheru Qiu; Rui Ning Wang; Aleksandr Tusnin; Alexey Tikan; Tobias J. Kippenberg; Claus Ropers

Combining nonlinear integrated photonics with electron microscopy, we probe the formation of optical dissipative structures in Si3N4 microresonators with free electrons and find unique spectral fingerprints in the electron spectrum that enable new electron beam modulation schemes.