Effect of Kerr nonlinearity on the transverse localization of light in 1D array of optical waveguides with off-diagonal disorder

Abstract

In this paper a simulation of the transverse localization of light in 1D array of optical waveguides in the presence of off-diagonal disorder is presented. Effects of self-focusing and self-defocusing Kerr nonlinearity on the transverse localization of surface and bulk modes of the disordered waveguides array are taken into consideration. The simulation shows that in the off-diagonal disordered array at low nonlinear parameters, the transverse localization of light becomes more than that of the corresponding diagonal disordered array. However by increasing the nonlinear parameters the diagonal disordered array is localized more than the associated off-diagonal disordered array for both surface and bulk modes. It is also found that the surface modes become more localized than the bulk modes by increasing the nonlinear parameter. The calculated effective beam width versus propagation distance for off-diagonal disordered arrays confirms these results.