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Breathers in PT-symmetric optical couplers

Date

Authors

Barashenkov, Igor

Suchkov, Sergey

Dmitriev, Sergey V

Sukhorukov, Andrey

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

American Physical Society

Abstract

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

Keywords

Keywords: Coupled optical waveguides; Dinger equation; Hamiltonian systems; Optical coupler; Oscillatory structure; Soliton collisions; Hamiltonians; Nonlinear equations; Solitons

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/69221

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Physical Review A: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Type

Journal article

Access Statement

Open Access

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevA.86.053809

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