Self-pulsing and chaos in the asymmetrically-driven dissipative photonic Bose-Hubbard dimer: A bifurcation analysis

Abstract: We perform a systematic study of the temporal dynamics emerging in the asymmetrically driven dissipative Bose-Hubbard dimer model. This model successfully describes the nonlinear dynamics of photonic diatomic molecules in linearly coupled Kerr resonators coherently excited by a single laser beam. Such temporal dynamics include self-pulsing oscillations, period doubled oscillatory states, chaotic dynamics, and spikes. The different states and dynamical regimes have been thoroughly characterized using bifurcation analysis. This analysis has allowed us to identify the main instabilities, i.e. bifurcations, responsible for the appearance of the previously stated dynamics.