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Synthetic dimensions provide a promising platform for photonic quantumsimulations. Manipulating the flow of photons in these dimensions requires anelectric field. However, photons do not have charge and do not directlyinteract with electric fields. Therefore, alternative approaches are needed torealize electric fields in photonics. One approach is to use engineered gaugefields that can mimic the effect of electric fields and produce the samedynamical behavior. Here, we demonstrate such an electric field for photonspropagating in a two-dimensional synthetic space. We achieve this using alinearly time-varying gauge field generated by direction-dependent phasemodulations. We show that the generated electric field leads to Blochoscillations and the revival of the state after a certain number of stepsdependent on the field strength. We measure the probability of the revival anddemonstrate good agreement between the observed values and the theoreticallypredicted results. Furthermore, by applying a nonuniform electric field, weshow the possibility of waveguiding photons. Ultimately, our results open upnew opportunities for manipulating the propagation of photons with potentialapplications in photonic quantum simulations.

Guiding and confining of light in a two-dimensional synthetic space using electric fields