Observation of defect-free surface modes in optical waveguide arrays

Alexander Szameit; Ivan L. Garanovich; Matthias Heinrich; Andrey A. Sukhorukov; Felix Dreisow; Thomas Pertsch; Stefan Nolte; Andreas Tünnermann; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.203902

Observation of defect-free surface modes in optical waveguide arrays

Alexander Szameit^*, Ivan L. Garanovich, Matthias Heinrich, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Felix Dreisow, Thomas Pertsch, Stefan Nolte, Andreas Tünnermann, Yuri S. Kivshar

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Abstract

We report on the experimental observation of novel defect-free surface modes predicted theoretically for modulated photonic lattices. We generate the linear surface modes in truncated arrays of periodically curved optical waveguides created in fused silica by a laser direct-writing technique. Our results demonstrate that the degree of surface wave localization can be controlled by selecting the waveguide bending amplitude.

Original language	English
Article number	203902
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	20
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.203902
Publication status	Published - 13 Nov 2008

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