Visual observation of photonic Floquet–Bloch oscillations  

作　　者：Zhen Zhang Yuan Li Xiankai Sun Xuewen Shu 

机构地区：[1]Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and School of Optical and Electronic Information,Huazhong University of Science and Technology,Wuhan,Hubei 430074,China [2]Department of Electronic Engineering,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shatin,New Territories,Hong Kong SAR,China

出　　处：《Light(Science & Applications)》2024年第5期921-929,共9页光（科学与应用)（英文版）

基　　金：the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2023YFE0105800);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(62275093);the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(No.14209519,C4050-21E);The Chinese University of Hong Kong(Group Research Scheme).

摘　　要：Bloch oscillations(BOs),an important transport phenomenon,have been studied extensively in static systems but remain mysterious in Floquet systems.Here,by harnessing notions from photonic analogy,we propose a generalization of the existing BOs in photonic Floquet lattices,namely the“photonic Floquet–Bloch oscillations”,which refer to rescaled photonic Bloch oscillations with a period of extended least common multiple of the modulation period and the Bloch oscillation period.Next,we report the first visual observation of such photonic Floquet–Bloch oscillations(FBOs)by employing waveguide fluorescence microscopy.Most significantly,the FBOs surpass the existing BOs in Floquet systems and exhibit exotic properties on their own,including fractal spectrum and fractional Floquet tunneling.This new transport mechanism offers an intriguing method of wave manipulation that may contribute to rapidly developing fields in photonics,condensed matter physics,and quantum physics.

关 键 词：BLOCH ANALOGY GENERALIZATION 

分 类 号：O17[理学—数学]