Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in two-dimensional photonic lattices

Henrike Trompeter*, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Dragomir N. Neshev, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Yuri S. Kivshar, Thomas Pertsch, Ulf Peschel, Falk Lederer

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    Abstract

    We report on the first experimental observation of photonic Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in two-dimensional periodic systems. We study the propagation of an optical beam in a square lattice superimposed on a refractive index ramp. We observe oscillations of the beam inside the first Brilloin zone and tunneling of light from the first to the higher-order bands of the lattice band gap spectrum.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number053903
    JournalPhysical Review Letters
    Volume96
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

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