2009/02/10 by Stefano Longhi, S. Longhi · 1 citation
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Beam (structure) #Beam splitter #Light beam #Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications #Nonlinear Photonic Systems #Optical rectification #Photonic Crystals and Applications #Rectification #Refraction #Refractive index #Waveguide #Zigzag #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/ol.34.000458
published as Opt. Lett. 34, 458 (2009) · 3 pages, 3 figures
openalex publication_date 2009/02/10 · arxiv created 2010/01/06 · arxiv updated 2015/05/14 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
An "optical ratchet" for discretized light in photonic lattices, which enables observing rectification of light refraction at any input beam conditions, is theoretically presented, and a possible experimental implementation based on periodically curved zigzag waveguide arrays is proposed.