Kerr-enhanced amplification of three-wave mixing and emergent masing regimes
Integrated optical microresonators exploiting either second-order ($χ^{(2)}$) or third-order ($χ^{(3)}$) nonlinearities have become key platforms for frequency conversion, low-noise microwave photonics, and quantum entanglement generation. Here, we present an analytic theory of Kerr-enhanced three-wave mixing amplification in an...