Quantized transport of two-dimensional multifrequency solitons

Abstract

We consider Thouless pumping of two-dimensional quadratic solitons composed from coherently interacting fundamental frequency (FF) and second harmonic (SH) components propagating in a periodic ${\chi }^{(2)}$ material. The pumping is induced by two mutually sliding two-dimensional lattices defined by shallow transverse and longitudinal periodic refractive index modulation. Focusing on solitons in the semi-infinite gap, we find three distinct pumping scenarios: the absence of transport for small-amplitude solitons, non-quantized transport in a transient regime at intermediate amplitudes, and stable quantized transport for solitons with relatively large amplitudes. Different directions of the sliding velocity were investigated resulting in different trajectories of soliton center. The transition to the regime of quantized transport is found to depend strongly on phase mismatch between FF and SH waves that also influences stability properties of two-dimensional ${\chi }^{(2)}$ lattice solitons. We also show that pumping with longitudinal periods in the x and y directions, whose ratio approximates an irrational number, induces quantized transport whose direction rapidly converges, with increase of the accuracy of the approximation, to a limiting pumping direction determined by this irrational number and corresponding to truly incommensurate longitudinal periods.

arXiv comment29 pages, 6 figures

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