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 …

Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics

M Kim, Z Jacob, J Rho - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, topology has emerged as a major branch in broad areas of physics,
from atomic lattices to condensed matter. In particular, topology has received significant …

Two-dimensional topological photonics

AB Khanikaev, G Shvets - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Originating from the studies of two-dimensional condensed-matter states, the concept of
topological order has recently been expanded to other fields of physics and engineering …

Photonic quantum information processing: a review

F Flamini, N Spagnolo, F Sciarrino - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic quantum technologies represent a promising platform for several applications,
ranging from long-distance communications to the simulation of complex phenomena …

Topologically protected refraction of robust kink states in valley photonic crystals

F Gao, H Xue, Z Yang, K Lai, Y Yu, X Lin, Y Chong… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Recently discovered, valley photonic crystals (VPCs) mimic many of the unusual properties
of two-dimensional (2D) gapped valleytronic materials,,,,,,. Of the utmost interest to optical …

Direct observation of valley-polarized topological edge states in designer surface plasmon crystals

X Wu, Y Meng, J Tian, Y Huang, H Xiang, D Han… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The extensive research of two-dimensional layered materials has revealed that valleys, as
energy extrema in momentum space, could offer a new degree of freedom for carrying …

Topological photonics

T Ozawa, HM Price, A Amo, N Goldman, M Hafezi… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and
topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing …

Spin-dependent properties of optical modes guided by adiabatic trapping potentials in photonic Dirac metasurfaces

S Kiriushechkina, A Vakulenko, D Smirnova… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The Dirac-like dispersion in photonic systems makes it possible to mimic the dispersion of
relativistic spin-1/2 particles, which led to the development of the concept of photonic …

Photonics meets topology

BY Xie, HF Wang, XY Zhu, MH Lu, ZD Wang… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The topological phases in materials have been studied in recent decades for their unique
boundary states and transport properties. Photonic systems with band structures embrace …

Quantitative robustness analysis of topological edge modes in C6 and valley-Hall metamaterial waveguides

B Orazbayev, R Fleury - Nanophotonics, 2019 - degruyter.com
Recent advances in designing time-reversal-invariant photonic topological insulators have
been extended down to the deep subwavelength scale, by employing synthetic photonic …