Symmetry breaking with opposite stability between bifurcated asymmetric solitons in parity-time-symmetric potentials

We report a new type of symmetry-breaking bifurcation of solitons in optical systems with parity-time-symmetric potentials. In this bifurcation, the two bifurcated branches of asymmetric solitons exhibit opposite stability, which contrasts all previous symmetry-breaking bifurcations in conservative ...

Source: Optics Letters - May 16, 2019 Category: Physics Authors: Jianke Yang Source Type: research