Dmitry A Zezyulin, Herwig Ott, and Vladimir V Konotop:
Optics Letters 43, 5901--5904 (2018)
🔓 arXiv:1811.02247 (2018)
A localized non-Hermitian potential can operate as a coherent perfect absorber or as a laser for nonlinear waves. The effect is illustrated for an array of optical waveguides, with the central waveguide being either active or absorbing. The arrays situated to the left and to the right of the center can have different characteristics. The result is generalized to setups with the central waveguide carrying additional nonlinear dissipation or gain and to the two-dimensional arrays with embedded one-dimensional absorbing or lasing subarrays.