Dissertationen zum Thema „Discret soliton“

L'objet des recherches de ce manuscrit est de caractériser la dynamique de la lumière dans un réseau photonique. Les réseau photoniques sont des plateformes dans lesquels la lumière peut se propager et être analysée en détail. Le réseau photonique est composé de deux anneaux fibrés couplés entre eux. L'évolution de la lumière dans ces anneaux est entièrement décrite par une relation. Celle-ci est particulièrement difficile à obtenir dans son intégralité en une seule mesure. Dans notre étude, nous proposons d'associer un dispositif complémentaire qui va servir de référence pour mesurer entièrement et en une seule fois la relation.Une fois que nous mesurons cette relation, nous analysons sa structure pour décrire des propriétés fondamentales du réseau. Notre dispositif expérimental se montre particulièrement efficace pour étudier différentes formes de relation mais surtout des phénomènes physiques complexes comme la formation d'impulsion de forte puissance ou encore l'interaction entre impulsions
The subject of this manuscript's research is based on the characterization the dynamics of light in a photonic lattice. Photonic lattice are platform where light can propagate and be precisely analysed. The photonic lattice studied is formed by two fiber coupled ring. The evolution of light inside the lattice is fully describe by one relation. This one is especially challenging to be measured in a single measure. In our study, we propose to measure the complet relation into a single measure thanks to an add-on device.When the relation is observed, we analyze its structure to describe fundamental propreties of the lattice. Our experimental device offer the possibility to measure various relation but moreover complex physical phenomena such as high pulses formation, coherents structures or pulses interactions

Surface waves exist along the interfaces between two different media and are known to display properties that have no analogue in continuous systems. In years past, they have been the subject of many studies in a diverse collection of scientific disciplines. In optics, one of the mechanisms through which optical surface waves can exist is material nonlinearity. Until recently, most of the activity in this area was focused on interfaces between continuous media but no successful experiments have been reported. However, the growing interest that nonlinear discrete optics has attracted in the last two decades has raised the question of whether nonlinear surface waves can exist in discrete optical systems. In this work, a detailed experimental study of linear and nonlinear optical wave propagation at the interface between a discrete one-dimensional Kerr-nonlinear system and a continuous medium (slab waveguide) as well as at the interface between two dissimilar waveguide lattices is presented. The major part of this dissertation is devoted to the first experimental observation of discrete surface solitons in AlGaAs Kerr-nonlinear arrays of weakly coupled waveguides. These nonlinear surface waves are found to localize in the channels at and near the boundary of the waveguide array. The key unique property of discrete surface solitons, namely the existence of a power threshold, is investigated in detail. The second part of this work deals with the linear light propagation properties at the interface between two dissimilar waveguide arrays (so-called waveguide array hetero-junction). The possibility of three different types of linear interface modes is theoretically predicted and the existence of one of them, namely the staggered/staggered mode, is confirmed experimentally. The last part of the dissertation is dedicated to the investigation of the nonlinear properties of AlGaAs waveguide array hetero-junctions. The predicted three different types of discrete hybrid surface solitons are analyzed theoretically. The experimental results on observation of in-phase/in-phase hybrid surface solitons localized at channels on either side of the interface are presented and different nature of their formation is discussed.
Ph.D.
Optics and Photonics
Optics and Photonics
Optics PhD

The propagation dynamics of light in optical waveguide arrays is characteristic of that encountered in discrete systems. As a result, it is possible to engineer the diffraction properties of such structures, which leads to the ability to control the flow of light in ways that are impossible in continuous media. In this work, a detailed theoretical investigation of both linear and nonlinear optical wave propagation in one- and two-dimensional waveguide lattices is presented. The ability to completely overcome the effects of discrete diffraction through the mutual trapping of two orthogonally polarized coherent beams interacting in Kerr nonlinear arrays of birefringent waveguides is discussed. The existence and stability of such highly localized vector discrete solitons is analyzed and compared to similar scenarios in a single birefringent waveguide. This mutual trapping is also shown to occur within the first few waveguides of a semi-infinite array leading to the existence of vector discrete surface waves. Interfaces between two detuned semi-infinite waveguide arrays or waveguide array heterojunctions and their possible applications are also considered. It is shown that the detuning between the two arrays shifts the dispersion relation of one array with respect to the other. Consequently, these systems provide spatial filtering functions that may prove useful in future all-optical networks. In addition by exploiting the unique diffraction properties of discrete arrays, diffraction compensation can be achieved in a way analogous to dispersion compensation in dispersion managed optical fiber systems. Finally, it is demonstrated that both the linear (diffraction) and nonlinear dynamics of two-dimensional waveguide arrays are significantly more complex and considerably more versatile than their one-dimensional counterparts. As is the case in one-dimensional arrays, the discrete diffraction properties of these two-dimensional lattices can be effectively altered depending on the propagation Bloch k-vector within the first Brillouin zone. In general, this diffraction behavior is anisotropic and as a result, allows the existence of a new class of discrete elliptic solitons in the nonlinear regime. Moreover, such arrays support two-dimensional vector soliton states, and their existence and stability are also thoroughly explored in this work.
Ph.D.
Other
Optics and Photonics
Optics

In this thesis, we investigate analytically and numerically the existence and stability of discrete solitons governed by discrete nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equations with two types of nonlinearity, i.e., cubic and saturable nonlinearities. In the cubic-type model we consider stationary discrete solitons under the effect of parametric driving and combined parametric driving and damping, while in the saturable-type model we examine travelling lattice solitons. First, we study fundamental bright and dark discrete solitons in the driven cubic DNLS equation. Analytical calculations of the solitons and their stability are carried out for small coupling constant through a perturbation expansion. We observe that the driving can not only destabilise onsite bright and dark solitons, but also stabilise intersite bright and dark solitons. In addition, we also discuss a particular application of our DNLS model in describing microdevices and nanodevices with integrated electrical and mechanical functionality. By following the idea of the work above, we then consider the cubic DNLS equation with the inclusion of parametric driving and damping. We show that this model admits a number of types of onsite and intersite bright discrete solitons of which some experience saddle-node and pitchfork bifurcations. Most interestingly, we also observe that some solutions undergo Hopf bifurcations from which periodic solitons (limit cycles) emerge. By using the numerical continuation software Matcont, we perform the continuation of the limit cycles and determine the stability of the periodic solitons. Finally, we investigate travelling discrete solitons in the saturable DNLS equation. A numerical scheme based on the discretization of the equation in the moving coordinate frame is derived and implemented using the Newton-Raphson method to find traveling solitons with non-oscillatory tails, i.e., embedded solitons. A variational approximation (VA) is also applied to examine analytically the travelling solitons and their stability, as well as to predict the location of the embedded solitons.

Discrete optical systems are a subgroup of periodic structures in which the evolution of a continuous electromagnetic field can be described by a discrete model. In this model, the total field is the sum of localized, discrete modes. Weakly coupled arrays of single mode channel waveguides have been known to fall into this class of systems since the late 1960's. Nonlinear discrete optics has received a considerable amount of interest in the last few years, triggered by the experimental realization of discrete solitons in a Kerr nonlinear AlGaAs waveguide array by H. Eisenberg and coworkers in 1998. In this work a detailed experimental investigation of discrete nonlinear wave propagation and the interactions between beams, including discrete solitons, in discrete systems is reported for the case of a strong Kerr nonlinearity. The possibility to completely overcome "discrete" diffraction and create highly localized solitons, in a scalar or vector geometry, as well as the limiting factors in the formation of such nonlinear waves is discussed. The reversal of the sign of diffraction over a range of propagation angles leads to the stability of plane waves in a material with positive nonlinearity. This behavior can not be found in continuous self-focusing materials where plane waves are unstable against perturbations. The stability of plane waves in the anomalous diffraction region, even at highest powers, has been experimentally verified. The interaction of high power beams and discrete solitons in arrays has been studied in detail. Of particular interest is the experimental verification of a theoretically predicted unique, all optical switching scheme, based on the interaction of a so called "blocker" soliton with a second beam. This switching method has been experimentally realized for both the coherent and incoherent case. Limitations of such schemes due to nonlinear losses at the required high powers are shown.
Ph.D.
Other
Optics and Photonics
Optics

Discrete models are used in describing various microscopic phenomena in many branches of science, ranging from biology through chemistry to physics. Arrays of evanescently coupled, equally spaced, identical waveguides are prime examples of optical structures in which discrete dynamics can be easily observed and investigated. As a result of discretization, these structures exhibit unique diffraction properties with no analogy in continuous systems. Recently nonlinear discrete optics has attracted a growing interest, triggered by the observation of discrete solitons in AlGaAs waveguide arrays reported by Eisenberg et al. in 1998. So far, the following experiments involved systems with third order nonlinearities. In this work, an experimental investigation of discrete nonlinear wave propagation in a second order nonlinear medium is presented. This system deserves particular attention because the nonlinear process involves two or three components at different frequencies mutually locked by a quadratic nonlinearity, and new degrees of freedom enter the dynamical process. In the first part of dissertation, observation of the discrete Talbot effect is reported. In contrast to continuous systems, where Talbot self-imaging effect occurs irrespective of the pattern period, in discrete configurations this process is only possible for a specific set of periodicities. The major part of the dissertation is devoted to the investigation of soliton formation in lithium niobate waveguide arrays with a tunable cascaded quadratic nonlinearity. Soliton species with different topology (unstaggered – all channels in-phase, and staggered – neighboring channels with a pi relative phase difference) are identified in the same array. The stability of the discrete solitons and plane waves (modulational instability) are experimentally investigated. In the last part of the dissertation, a phase-insensitive, ultrafast, all-optical spatial switching and frequency conversion device based on quadratic waveguide array is demonstrated. Spatial routing and wavelength conversion of milliwatt signals is achieved without pulse distortions.
Ph.D.
Other
Optics and Photonics
Optics

Proteins in nature fold to one dominant native structure. Despite being a heavily studied field, predicting the native structure from the amino acid sequence and modeling the folding process can still be considered unsolved problems. In this thesis I present a new approach to this problem with methods borrowed from theoretical physics. In the first part I show how it is possible to use a discrete Frenet frame to define the discrete curvature and torsion of the main chain of the protein. This method is then extended to the side chains as well. In particular I show how to use the discrete Frenet frame to produce a statistical distribution of angles that works in similar fashion as the commonly used Ramachandran plot and side chain rotamers. The discrete Frenet frame displays a gauge symmetry, in the choice of basis vectors on the normal plane, that is reminiscent of features of Abelian-Higgs theory. In the second part of the thesis I show how this similarity with Abelian-Higgs theory can be translated into an effective energy for a protein. The loops of the proteins are shown to correspond to solitons so that the whole protein can be constructed by gluing together any number of solitons. I present results of simulating proteins by minimizing the energy, starting from a real line or straight helix, where the correct native fold is attained. Finally the model is shown to display the same phase structure as real proteins.

On montre, en utilisant des arguments relativement élémentaires, que les prolongements quasi-isométriques de l'espace euclidien "En" dans lui-même sont quasi-surjectifs, et que toute quasi-isométrie de "T x En" dans lui-même (où T est un arbre métrique localement fini) induit une quasi-isométrie de T. On généralise ensuite ces résultats au cas où "En" est remplacé par une variété ouverte "PL" munie d'une métrique uniformément contractile. Enfin, on obtient des résultats concernant les quasi-isométries de certains autres espaces métriques homéomorphes à "T x En", ce qui inclut le cas des groupes de Baumslag-Solitar.

L'equation de schrodinger non lineaire (nls) apparait generiquement dans l'etude des phenomenes de vibration et de propagation a enveloppes lentement variables. Mais c'est seulement lorsque cette equation est couplee au probleme spectral de zakharov shabat (zs) associe que l'on peut calculer la valeur de certains parametres importants (energie et nombre des solutions localisees) qui sinon resteraient libres. Dans ce travail, on etend les possibilites d'application de cette idee en developpant la theorie qui permet de prendre en compte des conditions asymptotiques non nulles mais symetriques sur le champ non lineaire. De plus le terme de couplage est donne sous deux formes differentes et pour chaque cas on deduit les conditions aux bords naturelles pour zs. Ensuite on utilise le caractere generique de nls pour obtenir, dans l'approximation du continu, un modele de diffusion de la lumiere par une chaine diatomique qui utilisent les resultats precedents. Enfin, on etudie la mobilite des modes localises intrinseques, toujours dans les chaines atomiques, mais cette fois-ci avec une version discrete de nls. On montre en particulier que les modes mobiles existent toujours dans le modele de fermi pasta ulam

A resposta impulso é utilizada como ferramenta padrão no estudo direto de sistemas concentrados, discretos e distribuídos de ordem arbitrária. Esta abordagem leva ao desenvolvimento de uma plataforma unificada para a obtenção de respostas dinâmicas. Em particular, as respostas forçadas dos sistemas são decompostas na soma de uma resposta permanente e de uma resposta livre induzida pelos valores iniciais da resposta permanente. A teoria desenvolve-se de maneira geral e direta para sistemas de nésima ordem, introduzindo-se a base dinâmica gerada pela resposta impulso na forma padrão e normalizada, sem utilizar-se a formulação de estado, através da qual reduz-se um sistema de ordem superior para um sistema de primeira ordem. Considerou-se sistemas de primeira ordem a fim de acompanhar-se os muitos resultados apresentados na literatura através da formulação de espaço de estado. Os métodos para o cálculo da resposta impulso foram classificados em espectrais, não espectrais e numéricos. A ênfase é dada aos métodos não espectrais, pois a resposta impulso admite uma fórmula fechada que requer o uso de três equações características do tipo algébrica, diferencial e em diferenças. Realizou-se simulações numéricas onde foram apresentados modelos vibratórios clássicos e não clássicos. Os sistemas considerados foram sistemas do tipo concentrado, discreto e distribuído. Os resultados da decomposição da resposta dinâmica de sistemas concentrados diante de cargas harmônicas e não harmônicas foram apresentados em detalhe. A decomposição para o caso discreto foi desenvolvida utilizando-se os esquemas de integração numérica de Adams-Basforth, Strömer e Numerov. Para sistemas distribuídos, foi considerado o modelo de Euler-Bernoulli com força axial, sujeito a entradas oscilatórias com amplitude triangular, pulso e harmônica. As soluções permanentes foram calculadas com o uso da função de Green espacial. A resposta impulso foi aproximada com o uso do método espectral.
The impulse response is employed as a standard tool for a direct study of concentrated, discrete and distributed systems of arbitrary order. This approach leads to the development o f a unified platform for obtaining dynamical responses. In particular, forced responses are decomposed into the sum of a permanent response and a free response induced by the initial values of the permanent solution. The theory is developed in a general manner for n-th order systems; being introduced the standard dynamical basis generated by the impulse response and the normalized one, without employing the state formulation, through which a higher-order system is reduced to a first-order system. In order to follow the many results found in the literature through the state space formulation, first-order systems were considered. The methods for computing the impulse response were classified into spectral, non spectral and numeric. Emphasis was given to non spectral methods, because the impulse response has a closed-form formula that requires the use of three characteristic equations of algebraic, differential and difference type. Numerical simulations were performed with classical and non classical vibrating models. The systems considered were concentrated, discrete and distributed. The decomposition results of the forced response of concentrated systems subject to harmonic and non harmonic loads were worked out in detail. The decomposition for the discrete case was developed by using the numerical integration schemes of Adams-Basforth, Strõmer and Numerov. For distributed systems was considered the Euler-Bernoulli model with an axial force subject to oscillating inputs with triangular, pulse and harmonic amplitude. The permanent solutions were computed with the spatial Green function. The impulse response was approximated with the spectral method.

The main original contribution of this thesis is the development of a fully discrete inverse scattering transform (IST) method for nonlinear partial difference equations. The equations we solve are nonlinear partial difference equations on a quad-graph, also called lattice equations, which are known to be multidimensionally consistent in N dimensions for arbitrary N. Such equations were discovered by Nijhoff, Quispel and Capel and Adler and later classified by Adler, Bobenko and Suris. The main equation solved by our IST framework is the Q3δ lattice equation. Our approach also solves all of its limiting cases, including H1, known as the lattice potential KdV equation. Our results provide the discrete analogue of the solution of the initial value problem on the real line. We provide a rigorous justification that solves the problem for wide classes of initial data given along initial paths in a multidimensional lattice. Moreover, we show how soliton solutions arise from the IST method and also utilise asymptotics of the eigenfunctions to construct infinitely many conservation laws.

En la presente Tesis se utilizan las herramientas de la teoría de grupos discretos, de la física del estado sólido y de la dinámica no lineal para estudiar los nuevos fenómenos que se pueden obtener al combinar la periodicidad y la no linealidad para controlar el comportamiento de la luz. Los modelos matemáticos obtenidos consisten en ecuaciones diferenciales no lineales en derivadas parciales tipo Schrödinger que presentan variaciones periódicas en la parte lineal y no lineal. En los sistemas con simetría rotacional discreta el estudio de estos modelos se ha centrado en el concepto clave de pseudomomento angular mientras que en los sistemas periódicos se ha explotado la analogía conlos sistemas estudiados en la física del estado sólido. Adicionalmente, se han desarrollado métodos de resolución numérica capaces de simular la propagación electromagnética en sistemas no lineales periódicosbidimensionales. Además se han simulado anipulaciones de propiedades de la luz que sirvan como base a dispositivos micrométricos pasivos (como memorias netamente ópticas) o activos (capaces de realizar operaciones booleanas) basadas en estructuras solitónicas sobre las que se pueden definir propiedades y dinámica magnética. El objetivo último es la simulación de dispositivos capaces de ser fabricados experimentalmente.
García March, MÁ. (2008). Modelización y simulación de dispositivos micrométricos basados en estructuras espaciales de solitones ópticos [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/2011
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Vad karaktäriserar en kristall? Svaret på denna till synes enkla fråga blir kanske att det är en anordning av atomer uppradade i periodiska mönster. Så ordnade strukturer kan studeras genom att det uppträder så kallade Braggtoppar i röntgendiffraktionsmönstret. Om frågan gäller elektrontäthetsfördelningen, kanske svaret blir att denna är periodisk och grundar sig på elektronvågor som genomtränger hela kristallen. I och med att nya typer av ordnade system, så kallade kvasikristaller, upptäcks och framställs på artificiell väg blir svaren på dessa frågor mer intrikata. En kristall behöver inte bestå av enheter upprepade periodiskt i rummet, och den klassiska metoden att karaktärisera strukturer via röntgendiffraktionsmönstret kanske inte alls är den allena saliggörande. I denna avhandling visas att ett ordnat gitter vars röntgendiffraktionsmönster saknar inre struktur, dvs är av samma diffusa typ som vad ett oordnat material uppvisar, fortfarande kan ha elektronerna utsträckta över hela strukturen. Detta implicerar att det inte finns något enkelt samband mellan diffraktionsmönstret från gittret och dess fysikaliska egenskaper såsom t ex lokalisering av vågfunktionerna. Man talar om lokalisering när en vågfunktion är begränsad inom en del av materialet och inte utsträckt över hela dess längd, vilket är av betydelse när man vill avgöra huruvida ett material är en isolator, halvledare eller ledare. Det vittnar samtidigt om behovet av att söka efter andra karakteristika när man försöker beskriva skillnaden mellan ett ordnat och ett oordnat material, där den senare kategorin kan uppvisa lokalisering. Resultaten utgör en klassificering av det svåröverskådliga området aperiodiska gitter i en dimension. Det leder till hypotesen att ideala kvasikristaller, genererade med bestämda regler, har kontinuerligt energispektrum av fraktal natur. I reella material spelar korrelation en viktig roll. Vid icke-linjär återkoppling till gittret kan man erhålla intrinsiskt lokaliserade vågor, som i många avseenden beter sig som partiklar, solitoner, vilka har visat sig ha viktiga tillämpningar inom bl a optisk telekommunikation. Sådana vågors roll for lagring och transport av energi har undersökts i teoretiska modeller for optiska vågledare och kristaller där ljuset har en förmåga att manipulera sig självt.
Spectral and dynamical properties of electrons, phonons, electromagnetic waves, and nonlinear coherent excitations in one-dimensional modulated structures with long-range correlations are investigated from a theoretical point of view. First a proof of singular continuous electron spectrum for the tight-binding Schrödinger equation with an on-site potential, which, in analogy with a random potential, has an absolutely continuous correlation measure, is given. The critical behavior of such a localization phenomenon manifests in anomalous diffusion for the time-evolution of electronic wave packets. Spectral characterization of elastic vibrations in aperiodically ordered diatomic chains in the harmonic approximation is achieved through a dynamical system induced by the trace maps of renormalized transfer matrices. These results suggest that the zero Lebesgue measure Cantor-set spectrum (without eigenvalues) of the Fibonacci model for a quasicrystal is generic for deterministic aperiodic superlattices, for which the modulations take values via substitution rules on finite sets, independent of the correlation measure. Secondly, a method to synthesize and analyze discrete systems with prescribed long-range correlated disorder based on the conditional probability function of an additive Markov chain is effectively implemented. Complex gratings (artificial solids) that simultaneously display given characteristics of quasiperiodic crystals and amorphous solids on the Fraunhofer diffraction are designated. A mobility edge within second order perturbation theory of the tight-binding Schrödinger equation with a correlated disorder in the dichotomic potential realizes the success of the method in designing window filters with specific spectral components. The phenomenon of self-localization in lattice dynamical systems is a subject of interest in various physical disciplines. Lattice solitons are studied using the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation with on-site potential, modeling coherent structures in, for example, photonic crystals. The instability-induced dynamics of the localized gap soliton is found to thermalize according to the Gibbsian equilibrium distribution, while the spontaneous formation of persisting intrinsic localized modes from the extended out-gap soliton reveals a phase transition of the solution.

碩士
國立臺灣大學
物理研究所
95
Periodic systems are ubiquitous in nature and are known to exhibit behaviors that differ fundamentally from those of homogenous systems. Among all periodic systems, optical waveguide array opens a wide door for investigating the dynamics in nonlinear periodic systems for its adaptability and controllability of light. Self-localized modes in periodically modulated structures, or discrete solitons, form when the broadening effects (discrete diffraction) and the nonlinear effects are balanced. Many properties about the wave propagation in the (nonlinear) periodic systems are demonstrated in this thesis, such as anomalous diffraction, diffraction-free propagation, and staggered and unstaggered modes. This thesis mainly focus on two topics: discrete soliton interactions and symmetry breaking of even discrete solitons. Since one of the most intriguing phenomena in the nonlinear optics is the soliton interaction, we perform numerical simulations of the discrete soliton interactions, and study the threefold interplay between statistical properties (coherence), the periodic refractive index, and the nonlinear effects. We show that when the two beams are made partially incoherent, the interaction force will become much weaker, and this result is similar to the previous study, done by T.S. Ku, that focuses on the coherence-controlled soliton interactions in the homogenous nonlinear media. In the final section, we discuss the symmetry breaking instability of discrete solitons with even parity and show how incoherence can suppress the instability.