Polychromatic Optical Bloch Oscillations

Abstract

Bloch oscillations (BOs) of polychromatic beams in circularly-curved optical waveguide arrays are smeared out owing to the dependence of the BO spatial period on wavelength. Here it is shown that restoring of the self-imaging property of the array and approximate BOs over relatively broad spectral ranges can be achieved by insertion of suitable lumped phase slips uniformly applied across the array.

3 pages, 4 figures

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• Observation of dynamic localization in periodically-curved waveguide arrays
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• Light propagation and localization in modulated photonic lattices and waveguides