Pendry John, Huidobro Paloma, Silveirinha Mario, Galiffi Emanuele
Department of Physics, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Instituto Superior Técnico-University of Lisbon, Avenida Rovisco Pais 1, Lisboa, 1049-001, Portugal.
Nanophotonics. 2021 Nov 16;11(1):161-167. doi: 10.1515/nanoph-2021-0570. eCollection 2022 Jan.
We ask the question "what happens to Bloch waves in gratings synthetically moving at near the speed of light?". First we define a constant refractive index (CRI) model in which Bloch waves remain well defined as they break the light barrier, then show their dispersion rotating through 360° from negative to positive and back again. Next we introduce the effective medium approximation (EMA) then refine it into a 4-wave model which proves to be highly accurate. Finally using the Bloch waves to expand a pulse of light we demonstrate sudden inflation of pulse amplitude combined with reversal of propagation direction as a luminal grating is turned on.
“在以接近光速的速度进行合成运动的光栅中,布洛赫波会发生什么?” 首先,我们定义了一个恒定折射率(CRI)模型,在该模型中,布洛赫波在突破光障时仍能保持良好定义,然后展示其色散从负向正旋转360°,再旋转回负向。接下来,我们引入有效介质近似(EMA),然后将其细化为一个四波模型,该模型被证明具有很高的准确性。最后,利用布洛赫波来扩展一个光脉冲,我们证明当开启一个腔内光栅时,脉冲幅度会突然增大,并伴随着传播方向的反转。