Topological photonic crystals: physics, designs, and applications

GJ Tang, XT He, FL Shi, JW Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research in topological photonics has not only proposed and realized novel
topological phenomena such as one‐way broadband propagation and robust transport of …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Dielectric resonant metaphotonics

K Koshelev, Y Kivshar - Acs Photonics, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent rapid progress in subwavelength optics and nanophotonics with dielectric structures
is underpinned by the physics of Mie resonances excited in nanoparticles with a high …

Nonlinear topological photonics

D Smirnova, D Leykam, Y Chong… - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating
compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses …

A quantized microwave quadrupole insulator with topologically protected corner states

CW Peterson, WA Benalcazar, TL Hughes, G Bahl - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The theory of electric polarization in crystals defines the dipole moment of an insulator in
terms of a Berry phase (geometric phase) associated with its electronic ground state,. This …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review of topological photonics in one, two, and three dimensions

Z Lan, MLN Chen, F Gao, S Zhang, EI Wei - Reviews in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological photonics has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the unique
opportunities it provides to manipulate light in a robust way immune to disorder and defects …

Functional meta-optics and nanophotonics governed by Mie resonances

S Kruk, Y Kivshar - Acs Photonics, 2017 - ACS Publications
Scattering of electromagnetic waves by subwavelength objects is accompanied by the
excitation of electric and magnetic Mie resonances that may modify substantially the …

Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries

B Bahari, A Ndao, F Vallini, A El Amili, Y Fainman… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Resonant cavities are essential building blocks governing many wave-based phenomena,
but their geometry and reciprocity fundamentally limit the integration of optical devices. We …

Topological protection of photonic mid-gap defect modes

J Noh, WA Benalcazar, S Huang, MJ Collins… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Defect modes in two-dimensional periodic photonic structures have found use in diverse
optical devices. For example, photonic crystal cavities confine optical modes to …

Observation of photonic anomalous Floquet topological insulators

LJ Maczewsky, JM Zeuner, S Nolte… - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Topological insulators are a new class of materials that exhibit robust and scatter-free
transport along their edges—independently of the fine details of the system and of the edge …