Bragg-grating solitons in a semilinear dual-core system

Abstract

We investigate the existence and stability of gap solitons in a double-core optical fiber, where one core has the Kerr nonlinearity and the other one is linear, with the Bragg grating (BG) written on the nonlinear core, while the linear one may or may not have a BG. The model considerably extends the previously studied families of BG solitons. For zero-velocity solitons, we find exact solutions in a limiting case when the group-velocity terms are absent in the equation for the linear core. In the general case, solitons are found numerically. Stability borders for the solitons are found in terms of an internal parameter of the soliton family. Depending on the frequency omega, the solitons may remain stable for large values of the group velocity in the linear core. Stable moving solitons are also found. They are produced by interaction of initially separated solitons, which shows a considerable spontaneous symmetry breaking in the case when the solitons attract each other.