Nanomaterials

Optically-Induced Symmetry Switching in a Reconfigurable Kagome Photonic Lattice: From Flatband to Type-III Dirac Cones

Qingsong Yu, Zhenzhi Liu, Guo Dawei, Shun Ke Liang, Yanpeng Zhang, Zhaoyang Zhang

Published Sep 16, 2022• 6 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate the transition of band structure from flatband to type-III Dirac cones in an electromagnetically induced Kagome photonic lattice generated in a three-level Λ-type 85Rb atomic configuration both experimentally and theoretically. Such instantaneously reconfigurable Kagome photonic lattice with flatband is “written” by a strong coupling field possessing a Kagome intensity distribution, which can modulate the refractive index of atomic vapors in a spatially periodical manner under electromagnetically induced transparency. By introducing an additional one-dimensional periodic coupling field to cover any one set of the three inequivalent sublattices of the induced Kagome photonic lattice, the dispersion-less energy band can evolve into type-III Dirac cones with linear dispersion by easily manipulating the intensity of the one-dimensional field. Our results may pave a new route to engineer in situ reconfigurable photonic structures with type-III Dirac cones, which can act as promising platforms to explore the underlying physics and beam dynamics.

DOI: 10.3390/nano12183222

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