Equipment for Nonlinear Photonics Research - Light Control and Image Transmission in Specially-Designed Photonic.

摘要

In the past year, we successfully demonstrated several phenomena related to light localization, light beam manipulation, and light signal routing in free-space as well as in optically-induced photonic bandgap structures, including elimination of transverse instability in stripe solitons by one-dimensional lattices, linear and nonlinear control of optical beams in optical periodic structures. In particular, we predicted and demonstrated a new class of nonconventional edge states in optically induced honey-comb lattices - an optical analog of graphene, which has been published in Nature Material and Physics Review Letters. Our work was reported in a number of news media as well as featured in PRL cover. We are happy to report that we have made significant progress in this funded project with already many scientific research papers published in top-rated refereed journals (See attached list of publications that acknowledged the support from AFOSR). In addition, several students have actively involved in this project, and close collaboration has been maintained with other principal investigators supported by AFOSR.