Title :
Diverging Rabi oscillations in sub-wavelength photonic lattices
Author :
Alfassi, Barak ; Peleg, Or ; Moiseyev, Nimrod ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We show that Rabi oscillations between Bloch-modes of an waveguide array with sub-wavelength periodicity diverge, in both frequency and field amplitude, when the optical wavelength approaches a mathematical exceptional point where the Bloch-mode become self-orthogonal.
Keywords :
optical lattices; optical waveguides; quantum theory; Bloch-modes; Rabi oscillations; subwavelength photonic lattices; waveguide array; Arrays; Biomedical optical imaging; Maxwell equations; Optical waveguides; Oscillators; Reflection;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
