Stopping and Time Reversal of Light in Dynamic Photonic Structures via Bloch Oscillations
Optics
2009-11-13 v1 General Physics
Abstract
It is theoretically shown that storage and time-reversal of light pulses can be achieved in a coupled-resonator optical waveguide by dynamic tuning of the cavity resonances without maintaining the translational invariance of the system. The control exploits the Bloch oscillation motion of a light pulse in presence of a refractive index ramp, and it is therefore rather different from the mechanism of adiabatic band compression and reversal proposed by Yanik and Fan in recent works [M.F. Yanik and S. Fan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 083901 (2004); Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 173903 (2004)].
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@article{arxiv.physics/0612172,
title = {Stopping and Time Reversal of Light in Dynamic Photonic Structures via Bloch Oscillations},
author = {Stefano Longhi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0612172},
year = {2009}
}
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to be published in Phys. Rev. E