Title :
Specular amorphous photonic bandgap lattices
Author :
Zhang, Peng ; Ni, Peigen ; Qi, Xinyuan ; Man, Weining ; Chen, Zhigang ; Yang, Jianke ; Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA
Abstract :
We show theoretically and experimentally that photonic lattices constructed from random components residing on a ring in momentum space are amorphous, yet they exhibit a bandgap, and support linear and nonlinear defect-state guidance.
Keywords :
defect states; nonlinear optics; photonic crystals; momentum space; nonlinear defect-state guidance; photonic lattices; specular amorphous photonic bandgap lattices; Educational institutions; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Lattices; Photonic band gap; Photonics; Physics; Structural rings;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
