Observation of dispersion-free edge states in honeycomb photonic lattices

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Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Plotnik, Yonatan ^a,b   Rechtsman, Mikael C ^a,b   Song, Daohong ^a,b   Heinrich, Matthias ^a,b   Szameit, Alexander ^a,b   Malkova, Natalia ^a,b   Chen, Zhigang ^a,b   Segev, Mordechai ^a,b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; OPTICAL LATTICES; PHOTONICS;

FREE EDGE; HONEYCOMB LATTICES;

DISPERSIONS;

EID: 84908312426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21622701     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1364/qels.2012.qf2h.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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