Jackiw-Rebbi states and trivial states in interfaced binary waveguide arrays with cubic-quintic nonlinearity

Abstract

We systematically investigate two types of localized states - one is the optical analogue of the quantum relativistic Jackiw-Rebbi states, and the other is the trivial localized state - in interfaced binary waveguide arrays in the presence of cubic-quintic nonlinearity. By using the shooting method we can exactly calculate the profiles of these nonlinear localized states. Like in the case with Kerr nonlinearity, we demonstrate that these nonlinear localized states in the case with cubic-quintic nonlinearity also have a distinguishing feature which is completely different from all other well-known nonlinear localized structures in other media. Namely, the profiles of nonlinear localized states with higher peak amplitudes in interfaced binary waveguide arrays can totally envelope those with lower peak amplitudes. We show that high values of the saturation nonlinearity parameter can help to generate and stabilize these intense localized states during propagation, especially in the case with negative coefficient for the cubic nonlinearity term.