• Advanced Photonics
  • Vol. 4, Issue 3, 036002 (2022)
Guangzhen Li1、†, Luojia Wang1, Rui Ye1, Shijie Liu1, Yuanlin Zheng1、2, Luqi Yuan1、*, and Xianfeng Chen1、2、3、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Physics and Astronomy, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Shanghai, China
  • 2Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai, China
  • 3Shandong Normal University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulation and Applications, Jinan, China
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    DOI: 10.1117/1.AP.4.3.036002 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Guangzhen Li, Luojia Wang, Rui Ye, Shijie Liu, Yuanlin Zheng, Luqi Yuan, Xianfeng Chen. Observation of flat-band and band transition in the synthetic space[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2022, 4(3): 036002 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Constructions of synthetic lattices in modulated ring resonators attract growing attention to interesting physics beyond the geometric dimensionality, where complicated connectivities between resonant frequency modes are explored in many theoretical proposals. We implement experimental demonstration of generating a stub lattice along the frequency axis of light, in two coupled ring resonators of different lengths, with the longer one dynamically modulated. Such a synthetic photonic structure intrinsically exhibits the physics of flat band. We show that the time-resolved band structure read-out from the drop-port output of the excited ring is the intensity projection of the band structure onto a specific resonant mode in the synthetic momentum space, where gapped flat band, mode localization effect, and flat-to-nonflat band transition are observed in experiments and verified by simulations. This work provides evidence for constructing a synthetic stub lattice using two different rings, which, hence, makes a solid step toward experimentally constructing complicated lattices in multiple rings associated with synthetic frequency dimensions.

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    Guangzhen Li, Luojia Wang, Rui Ye, Shijie Liu, Yuanlin Zheng, Luqi Yuan, Xianfeng Chen. Observation of flat-band and band transition in the synthetic space[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2022, 4(3): 036002
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