Tunable positive and negative refraction in optically induced photonic lattices. Academic Article

abstract

• We study tunable refraction of light in one-dimensional periodic lattices induced optically in a photorefractive crystal. We observe experimentally both positive and negative refraction of beams that selectively excite the first or second spectral bands of the periodic lattice, and we demonstrate tunability of the output beam position by dynamically adjusting the lattice depth. At higher laser intensities, beam broadening due to diffraction can be suppressed through nonlinear self-focusing while preserving the general steering properties.

authors

• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Lett

author list (cited authors)

• Rosberg, C. R., Neshev, D. N., Sukhorukov, A. A., Kivshar, Y. S., & Krolikowski, W.

citation count

• 29

complete list of authors

• Rosberg, Christian R||Neshev, Dragomir N||Sukhorukov, Andrey A||Kivshar, Yuri S||Krolikowski, Wieslaw

publication date

• September 2005

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Letters  Journal

keywords

• 0205 Optical Physics

PubMed Central ID

• 16190448

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/ol.30.002293

start page

• 2293

end page

• 2295

volume

• 30

issue

• 17