Nonlinear photonic quasicrystals: Observation of tunneling-transport, soliton formation, and defect dynamics

Author

Freedman, Barak ; Bartal, Guy ; Segev, Mordechai ; Lifshitz, Ron ; Christodoulides, Demetrios N. ; Fleischer, Jason W.

Author_Institution

Solid State Inst., Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We present the first observation of defect dynamics in 2D nonlinearly interacting photonic quasicrystals. In addition, we present experiments showing linear ldquodiscreterdquo diffraction from various lattice sites and lattice solitons in photonic quasicrystals.

Keywords

holographic gratings; light diffraction; optical solitons; photorefractive materials; defect dynamics; lattice sites; lattice solitons; linear diffraction; nonlinear photonic quasicrystals; soliton formation; tunneling transport; Atom optics; Holographic optical components; Holography; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical solitons; Optical surface waves; Photonic crystals; Probes; (090.7330) Volume holographic gratings; (190.5330) Photorefractive nonlinear optics; (999.9999) Photonic crystals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4628897

Filename

4628897