Asymmetric soliton mobility in competing linear-nonlinear parity-time-symmetric lattices

作者:Kartashov Yaroslav V*; Vysloukh Victor A; Torner Lluis
来源:Optics Letters, 2016, 41(18): 4348-4351.
DOI:10.1364/OL.41.004348

摘要

We address the transverse mobility of spatial solitons in competing parity-time-symmetric linear and nonlinear lattices. The competition between out-of-phase linear and nonlinear lattices results in a drastic mobility enhancement within a range of soliton energies. We show that within such a range, the addition of even a small imaginary part in the linear potential makes soliton mobility strongly asymmetric. For a given initial phase tilt, the velocity of soliton motion grows with an increase of the balanced gain/losses. In this regime of enhanced mobility, tilted solitons can efficiently drag other solitons that were initially at rest to form moving soliton pairs.

  • 出版日期2016-9-15