Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 9, Issue 7, 070801(2011)

Rotating properties of Bragg reflections and spatial lattice solitons in rotating photonic lattices

Zaifei Song, Sheng Liu, Xuetao Gan, Jianlin Zhao, and Enpu Li
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  • Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, The Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, China
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    We demonstrate the rotating properties of Bragg reflections and spatial lattice solitons in rotating photonic lattices by analyzing the linear and nonlinear propagations of light. It reveals that the Bragg reflection of the light waves rotates synchronously with the lattices, leading to the rotation of the Bloch waves during propagations. In the presence of nonlinearity, rotating lattice solitons from different transmission bands can propagate in a relatively stable manner. However, reduced-symmetry solitons at point X2 cannot easily rotate synchronously with the lattice, owing to Coriolis forces. Moreover, additional angular momenta are added to the off-axis propagating solitons.

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    Zaifei Song, Sheng Liu, Xuetao Gan, Jianlin Zhao, Enpu Li, "Rotating properties of Bragg reflections and spatial lattice solitons in rotating photonic lattices," Chin. Opt. Lett. 9, 070801 (2011)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Geometric Optics

    Received: Dec. 2, 2010

    Accepted: Jan. 28, 2011

    Published Online: May. 27, 2011

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    DOI:10.3788/COL201109.070801

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