Realization of reflectionless potentials in photonic lattices.

نویسندگان

  • Alexander Szameit
  • Felix Dreisow
  • Matthias Heinrich
  • Stefan Nolte
  • Andrey A Sukhorukov
چکیده

We realize experimentally a true reflectionless potential, which facilitates nonresonant unity transmission for all incident waves and at the same time supports localized modes. We utilize arrays of evanescently coupled optical waveguides, where a particular modulation of the transverse waveguide separations provides a physical realization of reflectionless Ablowitz-Ladik soliton potentials.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Physical review letters

دوره 106 19  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011