Modulational instability of coupled ring waveguides with linear gain and nonlinear loss

Abstract We consider a nanostructure of two coupled ring waveguides with constant linear gain and nonlinear absorption - the system that can be implemented in various settings including polariton condensates, optical waveguides or atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. It is found that, depending on the...

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Autores principales: Nguyen Viet Hung, Krzysztof Zegadlo, Aliaksandr Ramaniuk, Vladimir V. Konotop, Marek Trippenbach
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/7c713a9c044a47c5ae6f253a7245892e
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Sumario:Abstract We consider a nanostructure of two coupled ring waveguides with constant linear gain and nonlinear absorption - the system that can be implemented in various settings including polariton condensates, optical waveguides or atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. It is found that, depending on the parameters, this simple configuration allows for observing several complex nonlinear phenomena, which include spontaneous symmetry breaking, modulational instability leading to generation of stable circular flows with various vorticities, stable inhomogeneous states with interesting structure of currents flowing between rings, as well as dynamical regimes having signatures of chaotic behavior.