Experimental Observation of Rabi Oscillations in Photonic Lattices
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We demonstrate spatial Rabi oscillations in optical waveguide arrays. Adiabatic transitions between extended Floquet-Bloch modes associated with different bands are stimulated by periodic modulation of the photonic lattice in the propagation direction. When the stimulating modulation also carries transverse momentum, the transition becomes indirect, equivalent to phonon-assisted Rabi oscillations. In solid state physics such indirect Rabi oscillations necessitate coherent phonons and hence they have never been observed. Our experiments suggest that phonon-assisted Rabi oscillations are observable also with Bose-Einstein condensates, as well as with other wave systems-where coherence can be maintained for at least one period of the Rabi oscillation.
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Photonic tunneling in structured fiber Bragg gratings provides another rather simple optical realization of Klein tunneling.
“Another rather simple optical realization of Klein tunneling is provided by photonic tunneling in structured fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) [39].”
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Fig.4(d) depicts typical transmission spectra in three FBGs with different chirp rates, realized to operate near the λ=1.5 μm wavelength of optical communications.
“This is shown in Fig.4(d), which depicts typical transmission spectra in three FBGs with different chirp rates, realized to operate near the λ = 1 . 5 µ m wavelength of optical communications (for more details see [39]).”
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Even in simpler one-dimensional periodic optical structures one can realize optical analogues of KT.
“However, even in simpler onedimensional periodic optical structures one can realize optical analogues of KT [36,39].”
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Pulse propagation in a FBG with suitably designed phase and amplitude grating profiles can be used to mimic the relativistic tunneling of a wave packet in a potential step V(z).
“Therefore, pulse propagation in a FBG with a suitably designed phase and amplitude grating profiles can be used to mimic the relativistic tunneling of a wave packet in a potential step V ( z ).”
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- Authors
- Shandarova, K., Rüter, C. E., Kip, D., Makris, K. G., Christodoulides, D. N., Peleg, O., & Segev, M.
- Affiliations
- Clausthal University of Technology (DE)
- University of Central Florida (US)
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (IL)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2009-03-27
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 123905-123905
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2003593341
- Cited by
- 108
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 7.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Nonlinear Photonic Systems
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photonic Crystals and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Keywords
- Rabi oscillations, photonic lattices, optical waveguide arrays, Floquet-Bloch modes, adiabatic transitions, periodic modulation, transverse momentum, Bose-Einstein condensate, coherent phonons, waveguide arrays
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