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Chin. Phys. B, 2009, Vol. 18(11): 4924-4931    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/18/11/051
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Bloch oscillation and Landau--Zener tunnelling in a modulated optical lattice in a photovoltaic photorefractive crystal

Zhang Bing-Zhi(张冰志), Cui Hu(崔虎), Li Xiang-Heng(李湘衡), and She Wei-Long(佘卫龙)
State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Abstract  We theoretically study the beam dynamical behaviour in a modulated optical lattice with a quadratic potential in a photovoltaic photorefractive crystal. We find that two different Bloch oscillation patterns appear for the excitation of both broad and narrow light beams. One kind of optical Landau--Zener tunnelling also appears upon the Bloch oscillation and can be controlled by adjusting the parameter of the optical lattice. Unlike the case of linear potential, the energy radiation due to Landau--Zener tunnelling can be confined in modulated lattices of this kind. For high input intensity levels, the Landau--Zener tunnelling is suppressed by the photovoltaic photorefractive nonlinearity and a symmetry breaking of beam propagation from the modulational instability appears.
Keywords:  Bloch oscillation      Landau--Zener tunnelling      double-period lattice      photovoltaic photorefractive  
Received:  02 March 2009      Revised:  21 April 2009      Accepted manuscript online: 
PACS:  42.70.Nq (Other nonlinear optical materials; photorefractive and semiconductor materials)  
  72.40.+w (Photoconduction and photovoltaic effects)  
  42.65.Hw (Phase conjugation; photorefractive and Kerr effects)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No 10874251).

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Zhang Bing-Zhi(张冰志), Cui Hu(崔虎), Li Xiang-Heng(李湘衡), and She Wei-Long(佘卫龙) Bloch oscillation and Landau--Zener tunnelling in a modulated optical lattice in a photovoltaic photorefractive crystal 2009 Chin. Phys. B 18 4924

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