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Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling in two-dimensional photonic lattices

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2006-02-09

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

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American Physical Society

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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.

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Keywords: Electron tunneling; Energy gap; Light propagation; Oscillations; Photons; Refractive index; Photonic Bloch oscillations; Two-dimensional photonic lattices; Zener tunneling; Crystal lattices

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Physical Review Letters 96.5 (2006): 053903/1-4

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http://hdl.handle.net/10440/773
 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/773

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Physical Review Letters

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.053903

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