Interband resonant transitions in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices: Rabi oscillations, Zener tunnelling, and tunnelling of phase dislocations

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 14076-14094

  Shchesnovich, Valery S ^a   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^b   Kivshar, Yuri S ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; LATTICE THEORY; PHOTONICS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; WAVE PROPAGATION;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES; HIGH-SYMMETRY POINTS; INTER-BAND TRANSITION; PROPAGATION OF LIGHTS; QUASI-ONE DIMENSIONAL; RESONANT TRANSITION; TOPOLOGICAL CHARGES;

OPTICAL LATTICES;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OSCILLOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OSCILLOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 51149119065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014076     Document Type: Article

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