• DocumentCode
    2793454
  • Title

    Conical diffraction and gap solitons in honeycomb photonic lattices

  • Author

    Peleg, O. ; Bartal, G. ; Freedman, B. ; Manela, O. ; Segev, M. ; Christodoulides, D.N.

  • Author_Institution
    Physics Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We predict and present the first observation of conical diffraction arising from k-space singularities in the band-structure of a periodic potential. The experiments are carried out in honeycomb lattices, where we also generate ¿honeycomb gap-solitons¿.
  • Keywords
    Dispersion; Holographic optical components; Holography; Honeycomb structures; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical refraction; Optical solitons; Optical surface waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-834-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/QELS.2007.4431705
  • Filename
    4431705