Title :
Magnetic field effects and Landau solitons in strained photonic graphene
Author :
Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Szameit, Alexander ; Seg, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We show that strain can induce large magnetic field effects in “photonic graphene” (honeycomb photonic lattices) without time-reversal symmetry-breaking. Consequently, we predict solitons bifurcating from Landau levels, and discuss how to observe them experimentally.
Keywords :
Landau levels; bifurcation; graphene; magnetic field effects; optical lattices; optical solitons; C; Landau levels; honeycomb photonic lattices; magnetic field effects; soliton bifurcation; strained photonic graphene; time-reversal symmetry-breaking; Lattices; Magnetic fields; Photonics; Solitons; Strain; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Information Photonics (IP), 2011 ICO International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ottawa, ON
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-315-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICO-IP.2011.5953737
