Title

Optical solitons in PT periodic potentials

Authors

Authors

Z. H. Musslimani; K. G. Makris; R. El-Ganainy;D. N. Christodoulides

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Phys. Rev. Lett.

Keywords

NON-HERMITIAN HAMILTONIANS; REAL; EIGENVALUES; DIFFRACTION; EQUATION; SPECTRA; Physics, Multidisciplinary

Abstract

We investigate the effect of nonlinearity on beam dynamics in parity-time (PT) symmetric potentials. We show that a novel class of one- and two-dimensional nonlinear self-trapped modes can exist in optical PT synthetic lattices. These solitons are shown to be stable over a wide range of potential parameters. The transverse power flow within these complex solitons is also examined.

Journal Title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

100

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Document Type

Article

DOI Link

http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.030402

Language

English

First Page

4

WOS Identifier

WOS:000252698100004

ISSN

0031-9007

Recommended Citation

"Optical solitons in PT periodic potentials" (2008). Faculty Bibliography 2000s. 753.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/facultybib2000/753