简介:Higher-bandself-trappingandoscillation(rotation)ofnonlinearquadruplebeamsintwo-dimensional(2D)squarephotoniclatticesarenumericallydemonstrated.Underappropriateconditionsofnonlinearity,aquadruple-likebeamcanself-trapintolocalizedmodesthatresideinthesecondBraggreflectiongapthroughsingle-siteexcitation.Bychangingtheinitialorientationoftheincidentquadruplebeamrelatedtothelattices,periodicoscillationsofthelocalizedquadruplemodemaybeobtained.Thelocalizedquadruplestatebecomesarotatingdoublychargedopticalvortex(DCV)duringrotationandshouldundergocharge-flippingwhentherotatingdirectionisreversed.