Interlaced linear-nonlinear optical waveguide arrays

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2008-10-09

arxiv.org/abs/0810.1627v2

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

Scientific paper

10.1364/OE.16.018296

The system of coupled discrete equations describing a two-component superlattice with interlaced linear and nonlinear constituents is revisited as a basis for investigating binary waveguide arrays, such as ribbed AlGaAs structures, among others. Compared to the single nonlinear lattice, the interlaced system exhibits an extra band-gap controlled by the, suitably chosen by design, relative detuning. In more general physics settings, this system represents a discretization scheme for the single-equation-based continuous models in media with transversely modulated linear and nonlinear properties. Continuous wave solutions and the associated modulational instability are fully analytically investigated and numerically tested for focusing and defocusing nonlinearity. The propagation dynamics and the stability of periodic modes are also analytically investigated for the case of zero Bloch momentum. In the band-gaps a variety of stable discrete solitary modes, dipole or otherwise, in-phase or of staggered type are found and discussed.

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