Acoustic Bloch oscillations in a two-dimensional phononic crystal

Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2007 Nov;76(5 Pt 2):056605. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.056605. Epub 2007 Nov 12.

Abstract

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.