Optical turbulence and transverse rogue waves in a cavity with triple quantum dot molecules

Eslami, M. and Khanmohammadi, M. and Kheradmand, R. and Oppo, G.-L. (2017) Optical turbulence and transverse rogue waves in a cavity with triple quantum dot molecules. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 96 (3). 033836. ISSN 1050-2947 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.033836)

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Abstract

We show that optical turbulence and extreme events can exist in the transverse dynamics of a cavity containing molecules of triple quantum dots under conditions close to tunneling-induced transparency. These nanostructure, when coupled via tunneling, form a four-level configuration with tunable energy-level separations.We show that such a system exhibits multistability and bistability of Turing structures in instability domains with different critical wave vectors. By numerical simulation of the mean-field equation that describes the transverse dynamics of the system, we show that the simultaneous presence of two transverse solutions with opposite nonlinearities gives rise to a series of turbulent structures with the capability of generating two-dimensional rogue waves.