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Nonlinear breaking of PT symmetry in coupled waveguides with balanced gain and loss

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Xu, Zhiyong
Sukhorukov, Andrey
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

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We predict that in coupled waveguides with balanced gain and loss, featuring stationary PT-symmetric modes in the linear regime, nonlinearity results in symmetry breaking above a critical power threshold, leading to sharp beam switching.

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Optics InfoBase Conference Papers

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2037-12-31