Optical transitions and Rabi oscillations in waveguide arrays

Opt Express. 2008 Jul 7;16(14):10309-14. doi: 10.1364/oe.16.010309.

Abstract

It is theoretically demonstrated that Rabi interband oscillations are possible in waveguide arrays. Such transitions can take place in optical lattices when the unit-cell is periodically modulated along the propagation direction. Under phase-matching conditions, direct power transfer between two Floquet-Bloch modes can occur. In the nonlinear domain, periodic oscillations between two different lattice solitons are also possible.

MeSH terms

  • Equipment Design
  • Models, Statistical
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Optics and Photonics*
  • Oscillometry / instrumentation*
  • Oscillometry / methods
  • Refractometry