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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 2007. QELS '07
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-834-6
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.2007.4431708
