Block-Diagonalization of the Symmetric First-Order Coupled-Mode System
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- Published by Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
- Vol. 5 (1) , 66-83
- https://doi.org/10.1137/050629781
Abstract
We consider the Hamiltonian coupled-mode system that occur in nonlinear optics, photonics, and atomic physics. Spectral stability of gap solitons is determined by eigenvalues of the linearized coupled-mode system, which is equivalent to a four-by-four Dirac system with sign-indefinite metric. In the special class of symmetric nonlinear potentials, we construct a block-diagonal representation of the linearized equations, when the spectral problem reduces to two coupled two-by-two Dirac systems. The block-diagonalization is used in numerical computations of eigenvalues that determine stability of gap solitons.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figuresKeywords
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