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Tunable self-shifting Bloch modes in anisotropic hexagonal photonic lattices
1Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 710072 Shaanxi, China.
Optics Letters
|June 29, 2012
Abstract:
We study controllable self-shifting Bloch modes in anisotropic hexagonal photonic lattices. The shifting results from a deformed band structure due to deformation of the index distribution in each unit cell. By reconfiguration of the index profile of the unit cell, the direction in which the Bloch modes move can be controlled. Our theoretical predictions are experimentally demonstrated in hexagonal lattices optically induced in an anisotropic nonlinear crystal.

