title: Stopping light in two dimensional quasicrystalline waveguides.
abstract: The introduction of defects in photonic lattices generally allows to control the localization and the propagation of light. While point defects are conventionally used in order to obtain localized photonic states, linear defects are introduced for waveguiding EM waves. In this work we demonstrate the possibility of obtaining localized states also in a waveguiding configuration, by using quasicrystalline lattices. This result opens a new range of possibilities in designing optical circuits, in which the localization-propagation switch is easly obtainable by mechanical or opto-electric methods.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Universit`a Milano-Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy. andrea1.trabattoni@mail.polimi.it
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Trabattoni
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Maini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Benedek
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003460:Crystallization; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D008027:Light; D008420:Manufactured Materials; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance / Q000295:instrumentation*