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21 June 2022 Observation of flat-band and band transition in the synthetic space
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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, and Xianfeng Chen "Observation of flat-band and band transition in the synthetic space," Advanced Photonics 4(3), 036002 (21 June 2022). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.4.3.036002
Received: 11 February 2022; Accepted: 25 May 2022; Published: 21 June 2022
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KEYWORDS
Modulation

Resonators

Physics

Band structure simulations

Fiber couplers

Superposition

Waveguides

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