2008, Alexander Szameit, Light Propagation in Two-dimensional Waveguide Arrays, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 25:
... supermodes of the array which are plane waves with a certain wavenumber and a profile characterized by the superposition of the amplitudes of the individual waveguides . The number of possible supermodes in an array is directly related[…]
2009 Ryan M. Camacho et al, "Characterization of radiation pressure and thermal effects in a nanoscale optomechanical cavity" arXiv
For devices with 40nm slot-gap, the optical gradient force is measured to be 134fN per cavity photon for the strongly coupled symmetric cavity supermode, producing a static cavity tuning greater than five times that of either the parasitic thermo-mechanical or thermo-optic effects.
2010 Ming Jie Zheng et al, "Steering between Bloch oscillation and dipole oscillation in parabolic optical waveguide arrays" arXiv
We study the optical oscillations of supermodes in planar optical waveguide arrays with parabolically graded propagation constant in individual waveguide interacting through nearest neighbor couplings.
