TY  - BOOK
AU  - Terhalle,Bernd
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Controlling Light in Optically Induced Photonic Lattices
T2  - Springer Theses
SN  - 9783642166471
AV  - QC350-467 
U1  - 621.36 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Physics
KW  - Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices
KW  - Nonlinear Dynamics
KW  - Quantum Optics
KW  - Nanoscale Science and Technology
N1  - Motivation and Outline -- Light Propagation in Nonlinear Periodic Media -- Optically Induced Photonic Lattices -- Resonant Rabi Oscillations and Interband Transitions -- Nonlinear Light Localization -- Summary and Outlook -- Appendix
N2  - Discrete periodic structures play an important role in physics, and have opened up an exciting new area of investigation in recent years. Questions relating to the control of light in such structures still represent a major challenge. It is this highly active field that is adressed in the present thesis. Using the model system of a photorefractive nonlinearity that allows one to simultaneously create and control photonic lattices by light, the author obtains a comprehensive picture of the control of nonlinear and quantum optics phenomena in photonic lattices. He describes and demonstrates experimentally for the first time resonant transitions in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices, including Rabi oscillations and Landau-Zener tunneling, as well as the direct control and exploitation of these transitions. A particular highlight of this thesis is the study of soliton-cluster switching and control of Zener tunneling
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