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Main Authors: Yazdani-Kachoei, Majid, Sacha, Krzysztof, Malomed, Boris A.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21047
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author Yazdani-Kachoei, Majid
Sacha, Krzysztof
Malomed, Boris A.
author_facet Yazdani-Kachoei, Majid
Sacha, Krzysztof
Malomed, Boris A.
contents Research on time crystals concerns the spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry in time, as well as the realization of phenomena and phases known from solid-state physics in the time domain. Periodically driven systems of massive particles are widely used in these studies. In the present work, we consider a photonic system and demonstrate that stable nonlinear propagation of a strong optical wave in a fiber leads to the establishment of quasi-periodic oscillations in the electromagnetic field intensity. A second, weaker signal optical wave propagating in the fiber senses these oscillations and, as a result, undergoes exponential localization in time. This is a temporal analogue of Aubry-Andre localization. If an optical detector is placed at a certain position in the fiber, the temporal localization of the probe wave will be observed in the form of the signal which emerges and then decays as a function of time.
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spellingShingle Temporal localization of optical waves supported by a copropagating quasiperiodic structure
Yazdani-Kachoei, Majid
Sacha, Krzysztof
Malomed, Boris A.
Optics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Research on time crystals concerns the spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry in time, as well as the realization of phenomena and phases known from solid-state physics in the time domain. Periodically driven systems of massive particles are widely used in these studies. In the present work, we consider a photonic system and demonstrate that stable nonlinear propagation of a strong optical wave in a fiber leads to the establishment of quasi-periodic oscillations in the electromagnetic field intensity. A second, weaker signal optical wave propagating in the fiber senses these oscillations and, as a result, undergoes exponential localization in time. This is a temporal analogue of Aubry-Andre localization. If an optical detector is placed at a certain position in the fiber, the temporal localization of the probe wave will be observed in the form of the signal which emerges and then decays as a function of time.
title Temporal localization of optical waves supported by a copropagating quasiperiodic structure
topic Optics
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21047