Stability, mobility and power currents in a two-dimensional model for waveguide arrays with nonlinear coupling

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSD.2008.08.006zbMATH Open1153.78327arXiv0805.3814OpenAlexW1983710400MaRDI QIDQ1000752FDOQ1000752

Authors: Michael Öster, Magnus Johansson 

Publication date: 10 February 2009

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A two-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger lattice with nonlinear coupling, modelling a square array of weakly coupled linear optical waveguides embedded in a nonlinear Kerr material, is studied. We find that despite a vanishing energy difference (Peierls-Nabarro barrier) of fundamental stationary modes the mobility of localized excitations is very poor. This is attributed to a large separation in parameter space of the bifurcation points of the involved stationary modes. At these points the stability of the fundamental modes is changed and an asymmetric intermediate solution appears that connects the points. The control of the power flow across the array when excited with plane waves is also addressed and shown to exhibit great flexibility that may lead to applications for power-coupling devices. In certain parameter regimes, the direction of a stable propagating plane-wave current is shown to be continuously tunable by amplitude variation (with fixed phase gradient). More exotic effects of the nonlinear coupling terms like compact discrete breathers and vortices, and stationary complex modes with non-trivial phase relations are also briefly discussed. Regimes of dynamical linear stability are found for all these types of solutions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3814

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zbMATH Keywords

mobilitynonlinear couplingmodulational instabilityPeierls-Nabarro potentialinversion of stabilitypower currents

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Waves and radiation in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A40) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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