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 …

Valley photonic crystals

JW Liu, FL Shi, XT He, GJ Tang, WJ Chen… - … in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Topological photonics is an emerging field that attracts enormous interest for its novel ways
to engineer the flow of light. With the help of topological protection, the surface modes of …

Silicon nitride metalenses for close-to-one numerical aperture and wide-angle visible imaging

ZB Fan, ZK Shao, MY Xie, XN Pang, WS Ruan… - Physical Review …, 2018 - APS
Silicon nitride (Si N) is one of the emerging semiconductor materials that are used in both
linear and nonlinear all-optical integrated devices. Its excellent dielectric properties, high …

Topological phases in ring resonators: recent progress and future prospects

D Leykam, L Yuan - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Topological photonics has emerged as a novel paradigm for the design of electromagnetic
systems from microwaves to nanophotonics. Studies to date have largely focused on the …

Z2 Photonic Topological Insulators in the Visible Wavelength Range for Robust Nanoscale Photonics

W Liu, M Hwang, Z Ji, Y Wang, G Modi, R Agarwal - Nano Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Topological photonics provides an ideal platform for demonstrating novel band topology
concepts, which are also promising for robust waveguiding, communication, and …

High-performance, intelligent, on-chip speckle spectrometer using 2D silicon photonic disordered microring lattice

Z Lin, S Yu, Y Chen, W Cai, B Lin, J Song, M Mitchell… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
High-performance integrated spectrometers are highly desirable for applications ranging
from mobile phones to space probes. Based on silicon photonic integrated circuit …

Topological wave insulators: a review

F Zangeneh-Nejad, A Alù… - Comptes …, 2020 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Originally discovered in condensed matter systems, topological insulators (TIs) have been
ubiquitously extended to various fields of classical wave physics including photonics …

Optically reconfigurable spin-valley Hall effect of light in coupled nonlinear ring resonator lattice

H Yang, J Xu, Z Xiong, X Lu, RY Zhang, H Li, Y Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
Scattering immune propagation of light in topological photonic systems may revolutionize
the design of integrated photonic circuits for information processing and communications. In …

High-efficiency wideband SiNx-on-SOI grating coupler with low fabrication complexity

P Xu, Y Zhang, Z Shao, L Liu, L Zhou, C Yang… - Optics Letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
The chip-fiber grating coupler is a fundamental building block in integrated photonics,
providing convenient on-wafer testing and packaging. Couplers based on a silicon nitride …

Integrating Graphene/MoS2 Heterostructure with SiNx Waveguide for Visible Light Detection at 532 nm Wavelength

Z Wu, T Zhang, Y Chen, Y Zhang… - physica status solidi …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a silicon nitride waveguide‐integrated photodetector based on a transferred
graphene/MoS2 heterostructure has been reported, where photo‐generated electron–hole …