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 …

Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

Z Chen, M Segev - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Let there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and
ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science …

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 …

Roadmap on topological photonics

H Price, Y Chong, A Khanikaev… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological photonics seeks to control the behaviour of the light through the design of
protected topological modes in photonic structures. While this approach originated from …

Topological insulator vertical-cavity laser array

A Dikopoltsev, TH Harder, E Lustig, OA Egorov… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Topological insulator lasers are arrays of semiconductor lasers that exploit fundamental
features of topology to force all emitters to act as a single coherent laser. In this study, we …

On-chip nanophotonic topological rainbow

C Lu, YZ Sun, C Wang, H Zhang, W Zhao, X Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The era of Big Data requires nanophotonic chips to have large information
processing capacity. Multiple frequency on-chip nanophotonic devices are highly desirable …

Direct extraction of topological Zak phase with the synthetic dimension

G Li, L Wang, R Ye, Y Zheng, DW Wang… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Measuring topological invariants is an essential task in characterizing topological phases of
matter. They are usually obtained from the number of edge states due to the bulk-edge …

Topological photonics in synthetic dimensions

E Lustig, M Segev - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Topological photonics is a new and rapidly growing field that deals with topological phases
and topological insulators for light. Recently, the scope of these systems was expanded …

Topological photonics: Where do we go from here?

M Segev, MA Bandres - Nanophotonics, 2020 - degruyter.com
Topological photonics is currently one of the most active research areas in optics and also
one of the spearheads of research in topological physics at large. We are now more than a …

Anomalous single-mode lasing induced by nonlinearity and the non-Hermitian skin effect

B Zhu, Q Wang, D Leykam, H Xue, QJ Wang… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Single-mode operation is a desirable but elusive property for lasers operating at high pump
powers. Typically, single-mode lasing is attainable close to threshold, but increasing the …