Nontrivial Bloch oscillations in waveguide arrays with second-order coupling

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1908-1910

  Wang, Gang ^a   Huang, Ji Ping ^a   Yu, Kin Wah ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND EDGE; BEAM APPROACH; BLOCH OSCILLATIONS; LATTICE SYSTEM; MINIMUM VALUE; NEAREST-NEIGHBOR INTERACTIONS; NEAREST-NEIGHBORS; OSCILLATION PATTERNS; SECOND-ORDER COUPLING; TOPOLOGICAL CONFIGURATION; WAVEGUIDE ARRAY;

WAVEGUIDES;

SOLID STATE PHYSICS;

EID: 77954927334     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001908     Document Type: Article

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