• DocumentCode
    1680148
  • Title

    Destabilization of solitons in PT-symmetric optical lattices

  • Author

    Nixon, Sean ; Ge, Lijuan ; Yang, Jianke

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Math. & Stat., Univ. of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Stability of solitons in 1D and 2D parity-time (PT)-symmetric optical lattices is determined. We show that while stable solitons exist the addition of a PT-symmetric gain-loss profile has a destabilizing effect.
  • Keywords
    optical lattices; optical solitons; quantum optics; parity-time symmetric gain-loss profile; parity-time symmetric optical lattices; soliton destabilization; stable solitons; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Lattices; Media; Numerical stability; Photonic band gap; Solitons; Stability analysis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326660
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1680148