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OPTICS LETTERS
Volume 40, Issue 23, Pages 5443-5446Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OL.40.005443
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- James Watt Scholarship, Heriot Watt University
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/H005595/1]
- STFC [ST/H005595/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/H005595/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We experimentally demonstrate the photonic realization of a dispersionless flat band in a quasi-one-dimensional photonic lattice fabricated by ultrafast laser inscription. In the nearest neighbor tight binding approximation, the lattice supports two dispersive and one nondispersive (flat) band. We experimentally excite superpositions of flat-band eigenmodes at the input of the photonic lattice and show the diffractionless propagation of the input states due to their infinite effective mass. In the future, the use of photonic rhombic lattices, together with the successful implementation of a synthetic gauge field, will enable the observation of Aharonov-Bohm photonic caging. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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