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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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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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 language	English
Article number	053903
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	96
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.053903
Publication status	Published - 2006

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