Acoustic Bloch oscillations in a two-dimensional phononic crystal

作者:He Zhaojian; Peng Shasha; Cai Feiyan; Ke Manzhu; Liu Zhengyou*
来源:Physical Review E, 2007, 76(5): 056605.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.76.056605

摘要

We report the observation of acoustic Bloch oscillations at megahertz frequency in a two-dimensional phononic crystal. By creating periodically arrayed cavities with a decreasing gradient in width along one direction in the phononic crystal, acoustic Wannier-Stark ladders are created in the frequency domain. The oscillatory motion of an incident Gaussian pulse inside the sample is demonstrated by both simulation and experiment.