Gradient catastrophe of nonlinear photonic valley-Hall edge pulses
We derive nonlinear wave equations describing the propagation of slowly varying wave packets formed by topological valley-Hall edge states. We show that edge pulses break up even in the absence of spatial dispersion due to nonlinear self-steepening. Self-steepening leads to the previously unattended...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2021-10-01
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| Series: | Physical Review Research |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043027 |