Symmetry-breaking diffraction and dynamic self-trapping in optically induced hexagonal photonic lattices
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induced hexagonal photonic lattices Sheng Liu, Yi Hu, Peng Zhang, Xuetao Gan, Cibo Lou, Daohong Song, Jianlin Zhao, Jingjun Xu, and Zhigang Chen The Key Laboratory of Space Applied Physics and Chemistry, Ministry of Education and Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Optical Information Technology, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China The Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education and TEDA Applied Physics School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California 94132, USA
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