Light induced angular steering via Floquet-Bloch band-tunnelling in one-dimensional liquid crystalline photonic lattices

A. Fratalocchi; K. A. Rutkowska; M. A. Karpierz; G. Assanto

doi:10.2478/s11772-007-0022-8

Light induced angular steering via Floquet-Bloch band-tunnelling in one-dimensional liquid crystalline photonic lattices

A. Fratalocchi^*, K. A. Rutkowska, M. A. Karpierz, G. Assanto

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Abstract

We investigate all-optical Zener tunnelling in electro-optically tunable arrays of identical channel waveguides in undoped nematic liquid crystals. By all-optically inducing a refractive acceleration, we demonstrate a novel technique for band-to-band tunnelling, as well as a novel approach to light controlled steering and readdressing.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	210-214
Number of pages	5
Journal	Opto-electronics Review
Volume	15
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/s11772-007-0022-8
State	Published - Dec 2007
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Discrete propagation
Liquid crystals
Photonic lattices
Zener tunnelling

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Radiation
General Materials Science
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Light induced angular steering via Floquet-Bloch band-tunnelling in one-dimensional liquid crystalline photonic lattices

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