Observation of asymptotic localization of a wave packet

Felix Dreisow; Omri Bahat-Treidel; Dafna Welt; Alexander Szameit

doi:10.1364/OL.36.002065

Observation of asymptotic localization of a wave packet

Opt Lett. 2011 Jun 1;36(11):2065-7. doi: 10.1364/OL.36.002065.

Authors

Felix Dreisow¹, Omri Bahat-Treidel, Dafna Welt, Alexander Szameit

Affiliation

¹ Institute of Applied Physics, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena, Germany.

PMID: 21633450
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.002065

Abstract

We present the experimental observation of asymptotic localization, a new regime of wave packet localization under the action of an external linear potential gradient. We employ arrays of evanescently coupled waveguides and directly observe the wave packet trajectory, which exhibits an oscillation with vanishing amplitude and period.