Multimode parity-time and loss-compensation symmetries in coupled waveguides with loss and gain
arXiv:2104.11509 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.104.013507
Abstract
Loss compensation via inserting gain is of fundamental importance in different branches of photonics, nanoplasmonics, and metamaterial science. This effect has found an impressive implementation in the parity-time symmetric (PT-symmetric) structures possessing balanced distribution of loss and gain. In this work, we generalize this phenomenon to the asymmetric systems demonstrating loss compensation in the coupled multi-mode loss-gain dielectric waveguides of different radii. We show that similar to the PT-symmetric coupled single-mode waveguides of identical radii, the asymmetric systems support the exceptional points called here the loss compensation (LC) thresholds where the frequency spectrum undergoes a transition from complex to real values. Moreover, the LC-symmetry thresholds can be obtained for dissimilar modes excited in the waveguides providing an additional degree of freedom to control the system response. In particular, changing loss and gain of asymmetric coupled waveguides, we observe loss compensation for TM and TE modes as well as for the hybrid HE and EH modes.
arXiv comment11 pages, 13 figures
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