Title :
Magnetic field effects and Landau solitons in strained photonic graphene
Author :
Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Szameit, Alexander ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Solid State Inst., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We show that strain can induce large magnetic field effects in "photonic graphene" (honeycomb photonic lattices) without time-reversal symmetry-breaking. Consequently, we predict solitons bifurcating from Landau levels, and discuss how to observe them experimentally.
Keywords :
Landau levels; graphene; magnetic field effects; optical lattices; optical solitons; Landau levels; Landau solitons; honeycomb photonic lattices; magnetic field effects; strained photonic graphene; Lattices; Magnetic fields; Photonics; Solitons; Strain; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
