DocumentCode
1769736
Title
Direct observation of “pseudospin”-mediated vortex generation in photonic graphene
Author
Daohong Song ; Liqin Tang ; Yi Zhu ; Ablowitz, Mark ; Paltoglou, Vassilis ; Efremidis, Nikolaos K. ; Jingjun Xu ; Zhigang Chen
Author_Institution
Key Lab. of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China
fYear
2014
fDate
8-13 June 2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
Abstract
We observe vortex generation by selective excitation of two honeycomb sublattices at the vicinity of Dirac points. Such vortices arise from graphene “pseudospin”, suggesting that “pseudospin” could be observable and possess real angular momentum.
Keywords
angular momentum; graphene; optical lattices; optical vortices; C; Dirac points; angular momentum; honeycomb sublattices; photonic graphene; pseudospin-mediated vortex generation; Educational institutions; Equations; Graphene; Lattices; Mathematical model; Optical vortices; Photonics;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location
San Jose, CA
Type
conf
Filename
6988513
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