Nonlinear supratransmission in multicomponent systems

Phys Rev Lett. 2010 Aug 13;105(7):074101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.074101. Epub 2010 Aug 10.

Abstract

A method is proposed to solve the challenging problem of determining the supratransmission threshold (onset of instability of harmonic boundary driving inside a band gap) in multicomponent nonintegrable nonlinear systems. It is successfully applied to the degenerate three-wave resonant interaction in a birefringent quadratic medium where the process generates spatial gap solitons. No analytic expression is known for this model showing the broad applicability of the method to nonlinear systems.