• 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