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Dynamical trapping of light in modulated waveguide lattices

Optics 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

A discrete analogue of the dynamical (Kapitza) trapping effect, known for classical and quantum particles in rapidly oscillating potentials, is proposed for light waves in modulated graded-index waveguide lattices. As in the non-modulated waveguide lattice a graded-index potential can confine light at either normal or Bragg angle incidence, periodic modulation of the potential in the longitudinal direction enables to trap optical beams at both normal and Bragg incidence angles.

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@article{arxiv.1102.0380,
  title  = {Dynamical trapping of light in modulated waveguide lattices},
  author = {Stefano Longhi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0380},
  year   = {2015}
}

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to be published in Optics Letters

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