Open AccessAll-optical Landau-Zener tunneling in waveguide arrays
Author(s) -
Andrea Fratalocchi,
Gaetano Assanto
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.14.002021
Subject(s) - zener diode , quantum tunnelling , waveguide , floquet theory , optics , condensed matter physics , voltage , physics , materials science , optoelectronics , quantum mechanics , transistor , nonlinear system
We investigate Landau-Zener all-optical tunneling in a voltage-controlled waveguide array realized in undoped nematic liquid crystals. From the material governing equations we derive the original Zener model and demonstrate a novel approach to Floquet-band tunneling.