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1Department of Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. yoav.lahini@weizmann.ac.il
Abstract:
We report the observation of the signature of a localization phase transition for light in one-dimensional quasiperiodic photonic lattices, by directly measuring wave transport inside the lattice. Below the predicted transition point an initially narrow wave packet expands as it propagates, while above the transition expansion is fully suppressed. In addition, we measure the effect of focusing nonlinear interaction on the propagation and find it increases the width of the localized wave packets.
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