Zener Tunnelling in Periodic Two-Dimensional Photonic Lattices with Three-fold Symmetry

We study the interband wave tunnelling (Zener transitions) in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices with superimposed index gradient and derive simple analytical models capturing the essence of the tunnelling phenomenon. We find that the two-dimensional tunnelling in hexagonal lattices occurs at the hi...

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Main Authors: Desyatnikov, A.S., Kivshar, Y.S., Shchesnovich, V.S., Cavalcanti, S.B., Hickmann, J.M.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical models
Lattices
Numerical simulation
Optical arrays
Optical devices
Optical superlattices
Optical waveguides
Photonic crystals
Schrodinger equation
Tunneling
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Summary:We study the interband wave tunnelling (Zener transitions) in two-dimensional hexagonal lattices with superimposed index gradient and derive simple analytical models capturing the essence of the tunnelling phenomenon. We find that the two-dimensional tunnelling in hexagonal lattices occurs at the high-symmetry points (e.g., the M and lceil points), and it involves either three or six Bloch bands being described by the corresponding multi-level Landau-Zener-Majorana (LZM) system. We derive several types of the generalized LZM systems and verify analytical predictions by direct numerical simulations of the full linear Schrodinger equation with tilted periodic potential.
ISSN:2162-7339
DOI:10.1109/ICTON.2007.4296145