Nonlinear conical diffraction in superhoneycomb lattice induced in a photorefractive crystal

Yiqing Tian, H. U.A. Zhong, Milivoj R. Belić, Yanpeng Zhang, Fuli Li, Yiqi Zhang

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Abstract

We report nonlinear conical diffraction in the superhoneycomb lattice, which is an edge-centered honeycomb lattice, induced in a photorefractive crystal. This system is of special interest, as it represents a hybrid fermionic – bosonic physical system. When nonlinearity is imposed, conical diffraction from a fermionic Dirac cone will change from circular diffraction rings, formed by small hexagons, into a triangular arrangement of hexagons. But from the bosonic Dirac cone, conical diffraction changes into elliptic diffraction rings of different inner symmetries, with the outer ring intensity damped.

Original languageEnglish
Article number412
JournalRomanian Reports in Physics
Volume71
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Nonlinear conical diffraction
  • Photorefractive crystal
  • Superhoneycomb lattice

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