Title :
Light localization and Shockley surface states in honeycomb photonic lattices
Author :
Song, Daohong ; Lou, Cibo ; Malkova, N. ; Ye, Zhuoyi ; Hu, Yi ; Xu, Jingjun ; Chen, Zhigang
Author_Institution :
Key Lab. of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate an induction technique to generate honeycomb photonic lattices with equal and unequal sites in each unit-cell. We show light localization as nonlinear solitons and linear Shockley surface states in lattices with unequal sites.
Keywords :
honeycomb structures; localised states; optical lattices; optical solitons; surface states; honeycomb photonic lattices; induction technique; light localization; linear Shockley surface states; nonlinear solitons; unequal site; unit-cell; Laser beams; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Optical diffraction; Optical filters; Optical polarization; Solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
