Abstract
We report the experimental observation of tunneling of slow and fast electromagnetic modes in
coupled periodic waveguides shifted longitudinally by half of modulation period. According to the
symmetry analysis, such a coupler supports two electromagnetic modes with exactly matched slow
or fast group velocities but different phase velocities for frequencies close to the edge of the
photonic band. We confirm the predicted properties of the modes by directly extracting their
dispersion and group velocities from the near-field measurements using specialized Bloch-wave
spectral analysis method.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 98 |
Issue number | 6 |
Pages (from-to) | 061909 |
ISSN | 0003-6951 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |