• DocumentCode
    2793490
  • Title

    Phasons and pure phason strain in nonlinear photonic quasicrystals

  • Author

    Freedman, Barak ; Segev, Mordechai ; Lifshitz, Ron

  • Author_Institution
    Physics Dept. and Solid State Institute, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    6-11 May 2007
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study defect dynamics in nonlinear photonic quasicrystals, and demonstrate experimentally that phasons survive longer than phonons. We show that nonlinear interactions in photonic quasicrystals can reduce the phason strain within the structure.
  • Keywords
    Capacitive sensors; Filtering; Holographic optical components; Holography; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Periodic structures; Phonons; Photonic crystals; Physics;
  • 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.2007.4431708
  • Filename
    4431708