• DocumentCode
    2257635
  • Title

    Optical shockley-like surface states in light-induced superlattices

  • Author

    Wang, Xiaosheng ; Malkova, Natalia ; Hromada, Ivan ; Bryant, Garnett ; Chen, Zhigang

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys. & Astron., San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We provide the first demonstration of linear Shockley-like surface states in optically-induced semi-infinite photonic lattices with alternating strong/weak couplings. Such surface states appear in superlattices only when the surface termination is specially designed.
  • Keywords
    photonic crystals; superlattices; surface states; alternating strong/weak couplings; light-induced superlattices; linear Shockley-like surface states; optical Shockley-like surface states; optically-induced semi-infinite photonic lattices; surface termination; Bonding; Lattices; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical solitons; Optical superlattices; Optical surface waves; Optical waveguides; Physics; Surface waves; (230.7370) Waveguides; (240.6690) Surface waves;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572396