An effective semilocal model for wave turbulence in two-dimensional nonlinear optics

Abstract

The statistical evolution of ensembles of random, weakly interacting waves is governed by wave kinetic equations (WKEs). To simplify the analysis, one frequently works with reduced differential models of the wave kinetics. However, the conditions for deriving such reduced models are seldom justified self-consistently. Here, we derive a reduced model for the wave kinetics of the Schrödinger–Helmholtz equations in two spatial dimensions, which constitute a model for the dynamics of light in a spatially nonlocal, nonlinear optical medium. This model has the property of sharply localizing the frequencies of the interacting waves into two pairs, allowing for a rigorous and self-consistent derivation of what we term the semilocal approximation model (SLAM) of the WKE. Using the SLAM, we study the stationary spectra of Schrödinger–Helmholtz wave turbulence, and characterize the spectra that carry energy downscale, and waveaction upscale, in a forced-dissipated setup. The latter involves a nonlocal transfer of waveaction, in which waves at the forcing scale mediate the interactions of waves at every larger scale. This is in contrast to the energy cascade, which involves local scale-by-scale interactions, familiar from other wave turbulent systems and from classical hydrodynamical turbulence.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0162
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Systems analytics research institute (SARI)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies > Applied Mathematics & Data Science
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies
Aston University (General)
Additional Information: Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Funding Information: This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska–Curie grant agreement no. 823937 for the RISE project HALT, and by the Simons Foundation Collaboration grant Wave Turbulence (Award ID 651471). J.L. and J.S. are supported by the Leverhulme Trust Project grant no. RPG-2021-014. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Authors.
Uncontrolled Keywords: model reduction,nonlinear optics,turbulent cascades,wave turbulence
Publication ISSN: 1471-2946
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2024 08:58
Date Deposited: 01 Aug 2023 16:43
Full Text Link: https://arxiv.o ... /abs/2304.13547
Related URLs: https://royalso ... /rspa.2023.0162 (Publisher URL)
PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2023-07-26
Published Online Date: 2023-07-26
Accepted Date: 2023-06-29
Submitted Date: 2023-03-03
Authors: Skipp, Jonathan
Laurie, Jason (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-3621-6052)
Nazarenko, Sergey V.

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