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Modulational instability in PT-symmetric Bragg grating structures with saturable nonlinearity

K. Tamilselvan1,*, A. Govindarajan1,*,†, I. Inbavalli2, T. Alagesan2, and M. Lakshmanan1

  • 1Department of Nonlinear Dynamics, School of Physics, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli 620 024, India
  • 2Department of Physics, Presidency College (Autonomous), Chennai 600 005, India

  • *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • †Corresponding author: govin.nld@gmail.com
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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053510 – Published 12 May, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.053510

Abstract

We investigate the nontrivial characteristics of modulational instability (MI) in a system of Bragg gratings with saturable nonlinearity. We also introduce an equal amount of gain and loss into the existing system, which gives rise to an additional degree of freedom, due to the concept of PT symmetry. We obtain the nonlinear dispersion relation of the saturable model and discover that such dispersion relations for both the conventional and PT-symmetric cases contradict the conventional Kerr and saturable systems by not displaying the typical signature of loop formation in either the upper branch or lower branch of the curve drawn against the wave number and detuning parameter. We employ a standard linear stability analysis to study the MI dynamics of the continuous waves perturbed by an infinitesimal perturbation. The main objective of this paper is twofold: We investigate the dynamics of the MI gain spectrum at the top and bottom of the photonic band gap followed by a comprehensive analysis carried out in the anomalous and normal dispersion regimes. As a result, this perturbed system driven by the saturable nonlinearity and gain or loss yields a variety of instability spectra, which include the conventional sidebands, monotonically increasing gain, the emergence of a single spectrum in either of the Stokes wave-number regions, and so on. In particular, we observe a remarkably peculiar spectrum, which is caused predominantly by the system parameter, though the perturbation wave number boosts the former. We also address the impact of all the physical parameters considered in the proposed model, which include the coupling coefficient, dispersion parameter, and saturable nonlinearity on the phenomenon of MI for different PT-symmetric regimes ranging from the unbroken one to the broken one in greater detail.

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Phys. Rev. A 107, 053510– Published 12 May, 2023
  • Received 18 January 2023
  • Accepted 4 April 2023
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