Solitons in Nonlinear Optical Lattices

Based on the Lagrangian for the Gross –Pitaevskii equation as derived by H. Sakaguchi and B.A Malomed [5] we have derived a double well model for the nonlinear optical lattice. This model explains the various features of nonlinear optical lattices. Further, from this model we obtain and simulate the probability for tunneling from one well to another which agrees with experimental results [4].

Authors:

• Tapas Kumar Sinha
• Joseph Mathew

Keywords:

• Double well model
• nonlinear optical lattice
• Solitons
• tunneling.

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