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1	Characterization of attractors in a model for boundary-driven nonlinear optical waveguide arrays with disorder, gain and damping Faber, Felix January 2013 (has links) The purpose of this thesis is to study the effects of gain and damping on a nonlinear waveguide array with a strong disorder that is driven in the first site, and try to find regimes which have stable stationary solutions. This has been done with a modified DNLS (Discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation). Stable stationary solutions were mainly found when the damping was stronger than the gain, but some stable stationary regimes were also found when the gain was stronger than the damping. waveguide arrays nonlinear disorder gain damping randomly distributed potentials DNLS Discrete nonlinear Schrödinger equation