Effect of long-range correlated disorder on the transverse localization of light in 1D array of optical waveguides

Abstract

In this paper, the effects of the long-range correlated diagonal disordered optical waveguide arrays in the presence and absence of the positive Kerr nonlinearity are analyzed numerically. The calculated inverse localization length shows that the long-range correlation in a disordered system causes a decrease in the transverse localization in linear optical waveguide arrays. In the presence of positive Kerr nonlinearity, the inverse localization length is increased by increasing the nonlinear parameters in long-range correlated disordered systems in comparison with the uniform distribution disordered systems. This means that the long range correlation causes an enhancement of transverse localization in nonlinear waveguides in contrast with linear waveguide arrays. The calculated participation ratio and effective beamwidth confirm these results for linear and nonlinear systems.