Coupled mode equation modeling for out-of-plane gap solitons in 2D photonic crystals

DOI10.1137/120865914zbMATH Open1270.35176arXiv1202.3583OpenAlexW2962929602MaRDI QIDQ5300565FDOQ5300565

Tomáš Dohnal, Willy Dörfler

Publication date: 27 June 2013

Published in: Multiscale Modeling & Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Out-of-plane gap solitons in 2D photonic crystals are optical beams localized in the plane of periodicity of the medium and delocalized in the orthogonal direction, in which they propagate with a nonzero velocity. We study such gap solitons as described by the Kerr nonlinear Maxwell system. Using a model of the nonlinear polarization, which does not generate higher harmonics, we obtain a closed curl-curl problem for the fundamental harmonic of the gap soliton. For gap solitons with frequencies inside spectral gaps and in an asymptotic vicinity of a gap edge we use a slowly varying envelope approximation based on the linear Bloch waves at the edge and slowly varying envelopes. We carry out a systematic derivation of the coupled mode equations (CMEs) which govern the envelopes. This derivation needs to be carried out in Bloch variables. The CMEs are a system of coupled nonlinear stationary Schr"odinger equations with an additional cross derivative term. Examples of gap soliton approximations are numerically computed for a photonic crystal with a hexagonal periodicity cell and an annulus material structure in the cell.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.3583

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zbMATH Keywords

Kerr nonlinearityBloch transformationcoupled mode equationsslowly varying envelope approximationout-of-plane propagation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Soliton solutions (35C08) Asymptotic expansions of solutions to PDEs (35C20) Maxwell equations (35Q61) Asymptotic analysis in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M35)

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