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Diffraction control in periodically curved two-dimensional waveguide arrays

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: We study propagation of light beams in two-dimensional photonic lattices created by periodically curved waveguide arrays. We demonstrate that by designing the waveguide bending, one can control not only the strength and sign of the beam diffraction, but also to engineer the effective geometry and even dimensionality of the two-dimensional photonic lattice. We reveal that diffraction of different spectral components of polychromatic light can display completely different patterns in the same periodically modulated structure, e.g. one-dimensional, hexagonal, or rectangular. Our results suggest novel opportunities for efficient self-collimation, focusing, and reshaping of light beams in two-dimensional photonic structures.

Source: Optics Express

DOI: 10.1364/oe.15.009737

Authors: Ivan L. Garanovich, Alexander Szameit, Andrey A. Sukhorukov, Thomas Pertsch, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Stefan Nolte, Dragomir Neshev, Andreas Tuennermann, Yuri S. Kivshar

Institutions: Australian National University, Centre for Ultrahigh Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Language: English

Topic: Photonic Crystals and Applications

Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,270

OpenAlex ID: W2088005430

FWCI: 4.166

Cites: 31

Cited by: 50

Related to: 10