Geometric potential and transport in photonic topological crystals
Optics
2012-05-21 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
We report on the experimental realization of an optical analogue of a quantum geometric potential for light wave packets constrained on thin dielectric guiding layers fabricated in silica by the femtosecond laser writing technology. We further demonstrate the optical version of a topological crystal, with the observation of Bloch oscillations and Zener tunneling of purely geometric nature.
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@article{arxiv.1004.1948,
title = {Geometric potential and transport in photonic topological crystals},
author = {Alexander Szameit and Felix Dreisow and Matthias Heinrich and Robert Keil and Stefan Nolte and Andreas Tünnermann and Stefano Longhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.1948},
year = {2012}
}