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Phase transition to spatial Bloch-like oscillation in squeezed photonic lattices

Optics 2013-09-24 v1

Abstract

We propose an exactly solvable waveguide lattice incorporating inhomogeneous coupling coefficient. This structure provides a classical analogue to the squeezed number and squeezed coherent intensity distribution in quantum optics where the propagation length plays the role of squeezed amplitude. The intensity pattern is obtained in a closed form for an arbitrary distribution of the initial beam profile. We have also investigated the phase transition to the spatial Bloch-like oscillations by adding a linear gradient to the propagation constant of each waveguides (α \alpha ). Our analytical results show that the Bloch-like oscillations appear above a critical value for the linear gradient of propagation constant (α>αc \alpha > \alpha_{c} ). The phase transition (in the propagation properties of the waveguide) is a result of competition between discrete and Bragg diffraction. Moreover, the light intensity decay algebraically along each waveguide at the critical point while it falls off exponentially below the critical point (α<αc \alpha < \alpha_{c} ).

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@article{arxiv.1309.5481,
  title  = {Phase transition to spatial Bloch-like oscillation in squeezed photonic lattices},
  author = {M. Khazaei Nezhad and A. R. Bahrampour and M. Golshani and S. M. Mahdavi and A. Langari},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.5481},
  year   = {2013}
}

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7 Pages, 7 Figure