2 papers
physics.optics2021
Gradient catastrophe of nonlinear photonic valley-Hall edge pulses
Daria A. Smirnova, Lev A. Smirnov, Ekaterina O. Smolina +2
We derive nonlinear wave equations describing the propagation of slowly-varying wavepackets formed by topological valley-Hall edge states. We show that edge pulses break up even in…
physics.optics2020
Probing band topology using modulational instability
Daniel Leykam, Ekaterina Smolina, Aleksandra Maluckov +2
We analyze the modulational instability of nonlinear Bloch waves in topological photonic lattices. In the initial phase of the instability development captured by the linear stabil…