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Selected Works of Ramy El-Ganainy
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Optical Solitons in PT Periodic Potentials
Physical Review Letters (2008)
  • Z. H. Musslimani, Florida State University
  • Konstantinos G. Makris, University of Central Florida
  • Ramy El-Ganainy, University of Central Florida
  • Demetrios N. Christodoulides, University of Central Florida
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Abstract

We investigate the effect of nonlinearity on beam dynamics in parity-time (PT) symmetric potentials. We show that a novel class of one- and two-dimensional nonlinear self-trapped modes can exist in optical PT synthetic lattices. These solitons are shown to be stable over a wide range of potential parameters. The transverse power flow within these complex solitons is also examined.

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Publication Date
January 23, 2008
Publisher Statement
© 2008 The American Physical Society. Deposited here in compliance with publisher policies. Publisher's version of record: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.030402
Citation Information
Z. H. Musslimani, Konstantinos G. Makris, Ramy El-Ganainy and Demetrios N. Christodoulides. "Optical Solitons in PT Periodic Potentials" Physical Review Letters Vol. 100 (2008)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ramy_el-ganainy/19/