Negative refraction in tunable periodic photonic structures

Christian R. Rosberg*, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Yuri S. Kivshar

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    Abstract

    We predict theoretically and observe experimentally tunable refraction of beams in optically-induced lattices. By selective excitation of different Bloch modes in a tilted lattice, we observe positive and negative refraction for beams associated with the first and the second spectral band, respectively. We demonstrate tunability of the output beam position by dynamically adjusting the lattice depth. At higher laser intensities, the beam broadening due to diffraction can be suppressed through nonlinear self-focusing while preserving the general steering properties.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number59500C
    Pages (from-to)1-7
    Number of pages7
    JournalProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
    Volume5950
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2005
    EventPhotonic Crystals and Fibres - Warsaw, Poland
    Duration: 30 Aug 20051 Sept 2005

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