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Chaotic Bloch oscillations in dissipative optical systems driven by a periodic train of coherent pulses

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posted on 2023-05-10, 09:26 authored by Alexey Verbitskiy, Alexey Yulin, Alexander BalanovAlexander Balanov

We study the response of an optical system with the Kerr nonlinearity demonstrating Bloch oscillations to a periodic train of coherent pulses. It has been found out that the intensity of the field excited in the system by pulses resonantly depends on the train period. It is demonstrated numerically and analytically that the response of the system is stronger when the period of the driving pulses is commensurate with the period of the Bloch oscillations. Moreover, large enough pulses are capable to induce the instabilities which eventually lead to onset of chaotic Bloch oscillations of the wave-function envelope bouncing both in time and space. The analysis reveals that these instabilities are associated with period-doubling bifurcations. A cascade of such bifurcations with increase of the pulses’ amplitude triggers the chaotic behaviour.

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Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Russian Federation

History

School

  • Science

Department

  • Physics

Published in

Physical Review A

Volume

107

Issue

5

Publisher

American Physical Society

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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© American Physical Society

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review A and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.053519

Acceptance date

2023-05-02

Publication date

2023-05-24

Copyright date

2023

ISSN

2469-9926

eISSN

2469-9934

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Alexander Balanov. Deposit date: 3 May 2023

Article number

053519

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