Reconfigurable Optically Induced Three-dimensional Complex Nonlinear Photonic Quasicrystals
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چکیده
We present a versatile fabrication approach for scalable complex 3D photonic quasicrystals (PQCs) by a programmable spatial light modulator-assisted single step optical induction of refractive index modulation. We demonstrate for the first time the fabrication of higher order rotational symmetry reconfigurable nonlinear 3D axial PQCs and variants of complex 3D PQCs in externally biased SBN:Ce photorefractive nonlinear medium.
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