Title

Bloch oscillations in optical dissipative lattices

Authors

Authors

N. K. Efremidis;D. N. Christodoulides

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Lett.

Keywords

WAVE-GUIDE ARRAYS; LASERS; Optics

Abstract

We show that Bloch oscillations are possible in dissipative optical waveguide lattices with a linearly varying propagation constant. These oscillations occur in spite of the fact that the Bloch wave packet experiences coupling gain and (or) loss. Experimentally, this process can be observed in different settings, such as in laser arrays and lattices of semiconductor optical amplifiers. In addition, we demonstrate that these systems can suppress instabilities arising from preferential mode noise growth. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.

Journal Title

Optics Letters

Volume

29

Issue/Number

21

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

2485

Last Page

2487

WOS Identifier

WOS:000224600000009

ISSN

0146-9592

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