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We experimentally demonstrate the photonic realization of a dispersionless flat-band in a quasi-one-dimensional photonic lattice fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription. In the nearest neighbor tight binding approximation, the lattice…

Optics · Physics 2015-11-17 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Robert R. Thomson

We demonstrate that a flat-band state in a quasi-one-dimensional rhombic lattice is robust in the presence of external drivings along the lattice axis. The lattice was formed by periodic arrays of evanescently coupled optical waveguides,…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-06 Sebabrata Mukherjee , Robert R. Thomson

Flatband systems typically host "compact localized states"(CLS) due to destructive interference and macroscopic degeneracy of Bloch wave functions associated with a dispersionless energy band. Using a photonic Lieb lattice(LL), we show that…

The engineering of localised modes in photonic structures is one of the main targets of modern photonics. An efficient strategy to design these modes is to use the interplay of constructive and destructive interference in periodic photonic…

We realize fractal-like photonic lattices using cw-laser-writing technique, thereby observe distinct compact localized states (CLSs) associated with different flatbands in the same lattice setting. Such triangle-shaped lattices, akin to the…

Flat bands, characterized by zero group velocity and strong energy localization, enable interaction-enhanced phenomena across both quantum and classical systems. Existing photonic flat-band implementations were limited to evanescent-wave…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-17 Han-Rong Xia , Ziyao Wang , Yunrui Wang , Zhen Gao , Meng Xiao

Photonic lattices facilitate band structure engineering, supporting both localized and extended modes through their geometric design. However, greater control over these modes can be achieved by taking advantage of the interference effect…

A general symmetry-controlled mechanism is proposed for realizing dual flat-bands of bound state in the continuum (BIC) and its radiative counterpart in photonic crystal slabs. By breaking the vertical mirror symmetry of slab,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jiayao Liu , Zimeng Zeng , Zhuoyang Li , Zelong He , Zhaona Wang

Miniaturized photodetectors are becoming increasingly sought-after components for a range of next generation technologies, such as autonomous vehicles, integrated wearable devices, or gadgets embedded in the Internet of Things. A major…

Materials science and the study of the electronic properties of solids are a major field of interest in both physics and engineering. The starting point for all such calculations is single-electron, or non-interacting, band structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Alicia J. Kollár , Mattias Fitzpatrick , Peter Sarnak , Andrew A. Houck

Lasing at the nanometre scale promises strong light-matter interactions and ultrafast operation. Plasmonic resonances supported by metallic nanoparticles have extremely small mode volumes and high field enhancements, making them an ideal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 T. K. Hakala , H. T. Rekola , A. I. Väkeväinen , J. -P. Martikainen , M. Nečada , A. J. Moilanen , P. Törmä

Nonlinear interactions in photonic non-dispersive (flat) bands remain largely unexplored, despite their potential to yield exotic phenomena. Here, we demonstrate nonlinearity-induced transport of light from a boundary waveguide into…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-18 Avinash Tetarwal , Shailja Sharma , Sebabrata Mukherjee

We demonstrate the emergence of an entire flat band embedded in dispersive bands at the exceptional point of a PT symmetric photonic lattice. For this to occur, the gain and loss parameter effectively alters the size of the partial flat…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-12 Hamidreza Ramezani

We study experimentally light localization at phase-slip waveguides and at the intersection of phase-slips in a two-dimensional (2D) square photonic lattice. Such system allows to observe a variety of effects, including the existence of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 Alexander Szameit , Mario I. Molina , Matthias Heinrich , Felix Dreisow , Robert Keil , Stefan Nolte , Yuri S. Kivshar

The concept of flat band plays an important role in strongly-correlated many-body physics. However, the demonstration of the flat band physics is highly nontrivial due to intrinsic limitations in conventional condensed matter materials.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-29 Zi-He Yang , Yan-Pu Wang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Wan-Li Yang , Yong Hu , Jin-Hua Gao , Ying Wu

Certain lattices with specific geometries have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat, i.e. the electron energy is independent of the momentum. This can occur robustly irrespective of the specific couplings between the lattices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Md Nurul Huda , Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Peter Liljeroth

Topological flat bands (TFBs) are increasingly recognized as an important paradigm to study topological effects in the context of strong correlation physics. As a representative example, recently it has been theoretically proposed that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Yuhui Wang , Shupeng Xu , Liang Feng , Ritesh Agarwal

Flat optics has demonstrated great advances in miniaturizing conventional, bulky optical elements due to the recent developments in metasurface design. Specific applications of such designs include spatial differentiation and the…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-11 Olivia Y. Long , Cheng Guo , Weiliang Jin , Shanhui Fan

Optical lattice loaded with cold atoms can exhibit a tunable photonic band gap for a weak probe field under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency. This system possesses a number of advantageous properties, including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 David Petrosyan

Flat bands in lattice models have provided useful platforms for studying strong correlation and topological physics. Recently, honeycomb superlattices have been shown to host flat bands that persist in the presence of local perturbations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 Zihao Qi , Eric Bobrow , Yi Li