Abstract
We investigate for the first time optical beam dynamics in parity-time (PT) synthetic structures. We show that PT symmetric systems can exhibit a host of intriguing characteristics such as non-reciprocal Bloch modes and power oscillations.
© 2008 Optical Society of America
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