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Optical Bloch oscillations in waveguide arrays

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Abstract

We show that optical Bloch oscillations can emerge in waveguide arrays with linearly varying propagation constants. The existence of localized modes (Wannier–Stark states) with equidistant wave-number spacing (Wannier–Stark ladder) that do not undergo diffraction is analytically proved. The evolution of arbitrary initial excitations is described, and potential applications are suggested.

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