• DocumentCode
    1682473
  • Title

    Self-imaging through a disordered waveguide lattice

  • Author

    Keil, Robert ; Lahini, Yoav ; Shechtman, Yoav ; Heinrich, Matthias ; Pugatch, Rami ; Dreisow, Felix ; Tünnermann, Andreas ; Nolte, Stefan ; Szameit, Alexander

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Appl. Phys., Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena, Jena, Germany
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that the eigenmodes of a waveguide array with disorder in the coupling between adjacent guides are pairwise conjugated. Therefore, self-imaging via phase-segmentation is inherently insensitive to such an off-diagonal disorder.
  • Keywords
    Talbot effect; optical arrays; optical couplers; optical materials; optical waveguides; disordered waveguide lattice; eigenmodes; off-diagonal disorder; optical self-imaging; pairwise conjugation; phase segmentation; waveguide array; Arrays; Couplings; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Image segmentation; Lattices; Optical waveguides; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326754