Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark localization in a tight-binding lattice with increasing intersite coupling

The onset of Bloch oscillations in an exactly solvable one-dimensional tight-binding lattice model with increasing hopping rates between adjacent sites is theoretically investigated. In particular, it is shown that Wannier-Stark localization is attained at a finite value of the applied dc field. An optical realization of the lattice model, based on light transport in engineered waveguide arrays, is also proposed.