• DocumentCode
    520945
  • Title

    Breaking of Dirac dynamics due to nonlinear interactions

  • Author

    BahatTreidel, Omri ; Peleg, Or ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We study nonlinear dynamics of electromagnetic waves in honeycomb photonic lattices, and find that nonlinearity breaks the effective Dirac equation. Furthermore, we show that the nonlinearity cannot be described simply by the nonlinear Dirac equation.
  • Keywords
    Atom optics; Electromagnetic propagation; Electromagnetic scattering; Lattices; Nonlinear equations; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical propagation; Optical scattering; Photonic crystals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA, USA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5500549