Discrete gap solitons in a diffraction-managed waveguide array

Details Discrete gap solitons in a diffraction-managed waveguide array Discrete gap solitons in a diffraction-managed waveguide array

2003-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0302025v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Pattern Formation and Solitons

18 pages, 27 figures, Eur. Phys. J. D in press

Scientific paper

10.1140/epjd/e2003-00065-1

A model including two nonlinear chains with linear and nonlinear couplings between them, and opposite signs of the discrete diffraction inside the chains, is introduced. For [$\chi ^{(3)}$] nonlinearity, the model finds two different interpretations in terms of optical waveguide arrays, based on the diffraction-management concept. A straightforward discrete [$\chi ^{(2)}$] model, with opposite signs of the diffraction at the fundamental and second harmonics, is introduced also. Starting from the anti-continuum (AC) limit, soliton solutions in the $\chi ^{(3)}$ model are found, both above the phonon band and inside the gap. Solitons above the gap may be stable as long as they exist, but in the transition to the continuum limit they inevitably disappear. On the contrary, solitons inside the gap persist all the way up to the continuum limit. In the zero-mismatch case, they lose their stability long before reaching the continuum limit, but finite mismatch can have a stabilizing effect on them. A special procedure is developed to find discrete counterparts of the Bragg-grating gap solitons. It is concluded that they exist all the values of the coupling constant, but are stable only in the AC and continuum limits. Solitons are also found in the $\chi ^{(2)}$ model. They start as stable solutions, but then lose their stability. Direct numerical simulations in the cases of instability reveal a variety of scenarios, including spontaneous transformation of the solitons into breather-like states, destruction of one of the components (in favor of the other), and symmetry-breaking effects. Quasi-periodic, as well as more complex, time dependences of the soliton amplitudes are also observed as a result of the instability development.

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