Ultrafast Optics Group

Physics in Photonic Lattices

Phenomena related to wave propagation in periodic media are at the core of some of the basic features of condense matter physics and have been the subject of a century of research. Using optical structures and in particular arrays of optical waveguides, our group has been able to observe and study directly some of these processes, from Bloch Oscillations to Anderson Localization.

In particular we are interested to observe the effects of interactions – or nonlinearities - on these processes, and to study the effects of quantum statistics in these systems.

For reviews of the field see “Discrete solitons in optics” F. Lederer, G.I. Stegeman, D.N. Christodoulides, G Assanto, M. Segev and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rep. 463, 1-126 (2008). “Discretizing light behavious in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices”, D. Christodoulides, F. Lederer and Y. Silberberg, Nature, 424, 817 (2003).

Below are our publications in the field of photonic lattices and nonlinear guided waves.

	“Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover in a photonic lattice”, E. Small, R.Pugatch and Y. Silberberg Phys. Rev.83, 013806,(2011) PDF
	“Quantum Correlations in Anderson Localization of Indistinguishable Particles, Y. Lahini, Y. Bromberg, D.N. Christodoulides and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163905 (2010). PDF “Bloch oscillations of path entangled photons” Y. Bromberg, Y. Lahini, Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 263604 (2010) PDF “Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry with interacting photons”, Y. Bromberg, Y. Lahini, E. Small and Y. Silberberg, Nature Photonics, 4, 721–726 (2010). PDF “Quantum walks of correlated particles” A. Peruzzo, M. Lobino, J. C. F. Matthews, N. Matsuda, A. Politi, K. Poulios, X-Q Zhou, Y. Lahini, N. Ismail, K. Wörhoff, Y. Bromberg, Y. Silberberg, M. G. Thompson, and J. L. O'Brien, Science, 329, 1500-1503, (2010)PDF
	“Analysis of a three-core adiabatic directional coupler” A. Salandrino, K. Makris, D.N. Christodoulides, Y. Lahini, Y. Silberberg and R. Morandotti, Opt. Commun. 282 4524-4526 (2009) PDF “Spatio-temporal X-wave”, E. Smal, O. Katz, Y. Eshel Y. Silberberg and D. Oron. Opt. Express, 17 18659-18668 (2009) PDF “Universal Correlations and Dynamic Disorder in a Nonlinear Periodic 1D System” Yaron Silberberg, Yoav Lahini, Yaron Bromberg, Eran Small and Roberto Morandotti, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 233904 (2009). PDF “Quantum and classical correlations in waveguide lattices” Y. Bromberg, Y. Lahini, R. Morandotti and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253904 (2009) PDF “Direct observation of a localization transition in quasi-periodic photonic lattices” Y. Lahini, R. Pugatch, F. Pozzi, M. Sorel, R. Morandotti, N. Davidson and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 013901 (2009) PDF
	“Discrete solitons in optics” F. Lederer, G.I. Stegeman, D.N. Christodoulides, G Assanto, M. Segev and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rep. 463, 1-126 (2008). “Multiple breakup of high-order spatial solitons” O. Katz, Y. Lahini and Y. Silberberg, Opt. Lett. 33, 2830 (2008). PDF “Realization of Quantum Walks with Negligible Decoherence in Waveguide Lattices”, Hagai B. Perets, Yoav Lahini, Francesca Pozzi, Marc Sorel, Roberto Morandotti, and Yaron Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170506 (2008). PDF "Anderson Localization and Nonlinearity in One-Dimensional Disordered Photonic Lattices ", Yoav Lahini, Assaf Avidan, Francesca Pozzi, Marc Sorel, Roberto Morandotti, Demetrios Christodoulides and Yaron Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 013906 (2008). PDF
	"Discrete X-Wave Formation in Nonlinear Waveguide Arrays", Yoav Lahini, Eugene Frumker, Yaron Silberberg, Sotiris Droulias, Kyriakos Hizanidis, Roberto Morandotti, and Demetrios N. Christodoulides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98,023901 (2007) PDF
	“Ground-state selection as a four-wave-mixing process”, A.Avidan, Y. Lahini, D. Mandelik, Y. Silberberg, Phys Rev A 73 063811 (2006). PDF “Effects of linear modes on the evolution of discrete solitons”, Peschel U, Lederer F, Morandotti R, Eisenberg HS, Silberberg Y, Aitchison JS, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 62-66 (2006).
	“Incoherent blocker soliton interactions in Kerr waveguide arrays”, Meier J, Stegeman GI, Christodoulides DN, Morandotti R, Salamo G, Yang H, Sorel M, Silberberg Y, Aitchison JS, Opt. Lett. 30, 3174-3176, (2005). “Nonlinearly induced relaxation to the ground state in a two-level system”, Mandelik D, Lahini Y, Silberberg Y, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 073902 (2005). PDF “Polarization dependent properties of waveguide arrays: band-structure anomaly and high-band localizations”, Y. Lahini, D. Mandelik and Y. Silberberg, Opt. Express 13, 1762 (2005). PDF “ Wide beam stabilities and instabilities in one dimensional arrays of Kerr-nonlinear channel waveguides” Meier J, Christodoulides DN, Stegeman GI, Yang H, Salamo G, Morandotti R, Aitchison JS, Silberberg Y. Opt-Electronics Reviews 13, 75-84 (2005). “Optics in non homogeneous waveguide arrays” Morandotti R, Eisenberg HS, Mandelik D, Silberberg Y, Modotto D, Sorel M, Stanley CR, Aitchison JS, Opto-Electronics Review 13, 103-106 (2005). “Excitation of strongly confined scalar and vector self-trapped beams in one-dimensional arrays of Kerr-nonlinear channel waveguides” Meier J, Hudock J, Christodoulides DN, Stegeman GI, Yang HY, Salamo G, Morandotti R, Aitchison JS, Silberberg Y, J. Opt. Soc. Am B 22, 1432-1436 (2005) “Beam interactions with a blocker soliton in one-dimensional arrays” Meier J, Stegeman GI, Christodoulides DN, Silberberg Y, Morandotti R, Yang H, Salamo G, Sorel M, Aitchison JS, Opt. Lett. 30, 1027-1029 (2005) PDF “Nonlinear beam interactions in 1D discrete Kerr systems”, Meier J, Stegeman GI, Christodoulides DN, Morandotti R, Sorel M, Yang H, Salamo G, Aitchison JS, Silberberg Y, Opt. Express 13 , 1797-1807 (2005)
	“Observation of discrete gap solitons in binary waveguide arrays” Morandotti R, Mandelik D, Silberberg Y, Aitchison JS, Sorel M, Christodoulides DN, Sukhorukov AA, Kivshar YS, Opt. Lett. 29, 2890-2892 (2004) “ Nonlinear optical beam interactions in waveguide arrays” Meier J, Stegeman GI, Silberberg Y, Morandotti R, Aitchison JS, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 093903 (2004) “Gap solitons in waveguide arrays” , D. Mandelik, R. Morandotti, J.S. Aitchison and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 93904 (2004). PDF “Experimental observation of discrete modulational instability” , J. Meier, G.I. Stegeman, D.N. Christodoulides, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, H. Yang, G. Salamo, M. Sorel and J.S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 , 163902 (2004) PDF
	“Discrete vector solitons in Kerr nonlinear waveguide arrays”, Meier J, Hudock J, Christodoulides D, Stegeman G, Silberberg Y, Morandotti R, Aitchison JS. Phys. Rev. Lett., 91 , 143907/1-4 (2003). PDF “Strong spatiotemporal localization in a silica nonlinear waveguide array”, Cheskis D, Bar-Ad S, Morandotti R, Aitchison JS, Eisenberg HS, Silberberg Y, Ross D. Phys. Rev. Lett., 91 , 223901/1-4 (2003). PDF “Discretizing light behavious in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices”, D. Christodoulides, F. Lederer and Y. Silberberg, Nature , 424 , 817 (2003). PDF “Observation of mutually-trapped multi-band optical breathers in waveguide arrays”, D. Mandelik, H. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti and J.S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett., 90 , 253902 (2003). PDF “Interactions of discrete solitons with structural defects”, R. Morandotti, H. S. Eisenberg, D. Mandelik, Y. Silberberg, D. Modotto, M. Sorel, C. R. Stanley, J. S. Aitchison, Opt. Lett, 28, 834 (2003). PDF “Spatial optical solitons in waveguide arrays”, Sukhorukov AA, Kivshar YS, Eisenberg HS, Silberberg Y, IEEE J. Quant. Electron. 39, 31-50, (2003). PDF “Band Structure of Waveguide Arrays and Excitation of Floquet-Bloch Solitons”, D. Mandelik, H.S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti and J.S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90 , 53902 (2003). PDF
	“Optical discrete solitons in wavguide arrays. I. Soliton formation,” H. S. Eisenberg, R. Morandotti, Y. Silberberg, J. M. Arnold, G. Pennelli, and J. S. Aitchison, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19 , 2938-2944 (2002). PDF “ Optical discrete solitons in waveguide arrays. II. Dynamic properties,” U. Peschel, R. Morandotti, J. M. Arnold, J. M. Arnold, J. S. Aitchison, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, T. Pertsch, and F. Lederer, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19 , 2637-2644 (2002). PDF file “Discrete Solitons”, F. Lederer and Y. Silberberg, Optics & Photonics News, Feb. 2002. PDF
	"Kerr Spatiotemporal Self-Focusing in a Planar Glass Waveguide", H. S. Eisenberg, R. Morandotti,Y. Silberberg, S. Bar-Ad, D. Ross and J. S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (2001). PDF "Self-Focusing and Defocusing in Waveguide Arrays", R. Morandotti, H. S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, M. Sorel and J. S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 , 3296 (2001). PDF
	“Steering of Discrete Solitons”, H. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, U.Peschel,and J. S. Aitchison, Nonlinear Optics, 24 , 207 (2000). "Diffraction Management", H.S. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, and J.S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 , 1863 (2000). PDF
	“Experimental Observation of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Bloch Oscillations” , R. Morandotti, U. Peschel, J.S. Aitchison, H. Eisenberg and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 4756 (1999). PDF “Dynamics of Discrete Optical Solitons”, R. Morandotti, H. Eisenberg, U.Peschel,Y. Silberberg and J. S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2726 (1999). PDF “Nonlinearly induced escape from a defect state in waveguide arrays”, Peschel U, Morandotti R, Aitchison JS, Eisenberg HS, Silberberg Y, Appl. Phys. Lett. 75, 1348-1350 (1999). PDF “Phase Defects in Self-Focusing of Ultrashort Pulses” , H. Eisenberg and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett., 83, 540 (1999). PDF
	“Discrete Spatial Solitons in Waveguide Arrays”, H. Eisenberg, Y. Silberberg, R. Morandotti, A.R. Boyd and J.S. Aitchison, Phys. Rev. Lett., 81, 3383 (1998). PDF
	“Numerical Simulations of Light Bullets Using the Full Vector Time Dependent Nonlinear Maxwell Equations” , P.M. Goorjian and Y. Silberberg, JOSA B, 14, 3253 (1997). PDF “Polarization Evolution and Polarization Instability of Solitons in Birefringent Optical Fibers”, Y. Barad and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 3290 (1997).