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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
