Breathers in PT-symmetric optical couplers

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Barashenkov, Igor
Suchkov, Sergey
Dmitriev, Sergey V
Sukhorukov, Andrey
Kivshar, Yuri

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American Physical Society

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We show that parity-time- (PT-) symmetric coupled optical waveguides with gain and loss support localized oscillatory structures similar to the breathers of the classical φ4 model. The power carried by the PT breather oscillates periodically, switching b

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Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

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