The Lugiato-Lefever equation with nonlinear damping caused by two photon absorption (Q2172785)

The Lugiato-Lefever equation is a nonlinear model for the electric field inside an optical cavity excited by a laser pump. In this paper, the authors studied the effect of nonlinear damping of the Lugiato-Lefever equation on the torus or the real line with two-photon absorption, which is a nonlinear optical phenomenon occurring when light propagates through silicon photonic devices. Including the two-photon absorption, the Kerr effect is modified by adding an imaginary component \(i \kappa\) (\( \kappa > 0\)) to the coefficient of the cubic nonlinear damping. The authors first found a parametrization of the constant solutions. By computing the kernel of the linearized operator, the bifurcation points on the curve of constant solutions are obtained. For the case of the torus, it is proved that stationary spatially periodic solutions bifurcate from constant solutions for small \( \kappa\). However, when \( \kappa\) exceeds a critical value, all stationary spatially periodic solutions disappear. For the case of the real line with an anomalous dispersion, it is proved that bright solitary stationary solutions exist for small \( \kappa\), large detuning, and large forcing of the laser pump.