Acta Photonica Sinica, Volume. 50, Issue 4, 128(2021)

Bifurcation-tunable Diffractionless Light Propagation in One-dimensional Non-Hermitian Photonic Lattice

Zhenjuan LIU1, Haohao WANG1, Yanan DAI1, Zhiqing ZHANG1, Yishan WANG2, and Xinyuan QI1
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  • 1School of Physics, Northwestern University, Xi'an70027, China
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi'an Institute of Optics and Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an710119, China
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    The light bifurcation transmission without diffraction in one-dimensional periodic compound photonic lattice was studied theoretically and numerically. When the lattice equals to degenerated Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, the incident light with the wave number k=±π will bifurcate into two symmetric branches without any diffractionand the angles between two beams can be controlled by the coupling J between two lattice sites. In addition, a modulation phase ϕ is introduced. When the non-Hermitian perturbations satisfy the parity-time symmetry, the diffractionless light bifurcation phenomenon with any incident light wave can be realized as long as the incident wave vector k and the modulation phase ϕ respect the expression k+ϕ=±π. Further studies have shown that the next-nearest coupling can control the transmission angle and power division of two branches. This research provides new ideas for the design of optical switches and future all-optical paths.

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    Zhenjuan LIU, Haohao WANG, Yanan DAI, Zhiqing ZHANG, Yishan WANG, Xinyuan QI. Bifurcation-tunable Diffractionless Light Propagation in One-dimensional Non-Hermitian Photonic Lattice[J]. Acta Photonica Sinica, 2021, 50(4): 128

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    Category: Optical Devices

    Received: Dec. 7, 2020

    Accepted: Jan. 15, 2021

    Published Online: May. 11, 2021

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    DOI:10.3788/gzxb20215004.0423003

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