Engineered disorder in photonics

S Yu, CW Qiu, Y Chong, S Torquato, N Park - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021‏ - nature.com
Disorder, which qualitatively describes some measure of irregularities in spatial patterns, is
ubiquitous in many-body systems, equilibrium and non-equilibrium states of matter, network …

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 …

Fractal photonic topological insulators

T Biesenthal, LJ Maczewsky, Z Yang, M Kremer… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Topological insulators constitute a newly characterized state of matter that contains scatter-
free edge states surrounding an insulating bulk. Conventional wisdom regards the insulating …

Localization and delocalization of light in photonic moiré lattices

P Wang, Y Zheng, X Chen, C Huang, YV Kartashov… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Moiré lattices consist of two superimposed identical periodic structures with a relative
rotation angle. Moiré lattices have several applications in everyday life, including artistic …

Optical soliton formation controlled by angle twisting in photonic moiré lattices

Q Fu, P Wang, C Huang, YV Kartashov, L Torner… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Exploration of the impact of synthetic material landscapes featuring tunable geometrical
properties on physical processes is a research direction that is currently of great interest …

Topological states and adiabatic pum** in quasicrystals

YE Kraus, Y Lahini, Z Ringel, M Verbin, O Zilberberg - Physical review letters, 2012‏ - APS
The unrelated discoveries of quasicrystals and topological insulators have in turn
challenged prevailing paradigms in condensed-matter physics. We find a surprising …

Optical spatial solitons: historical overview and recent advances

Z Chen, M Segev… - Reports on Progress in …, 2012‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Solitons, nonlinear self-trapped wavepackets, have been extensively studied in many and
diverse branches of physics such as optics, plasmas, condensed matter physics, fluid …

Observation of localization of light in linear photonic quasicrystals with diverse rotational symmetries

P Wang, Q Fu, VV Konotop, YV Kartashov, F Ye - Nature Photonics, 2024‏ - nature.com
Since their first observation in metallic alloys, quasicrystals have remained highly intriguing
ubiquitous physical structures, sharing properties of ordered and disordered media. They …

Optics of photonic quasicrystals

ZV Vardeny, A Nahata, A Agrawal - Nature photonics, 2013‏ - nature.com
The physics of periodic systems are of fundamental importance and result in various
phenomena that govern wave transport and interference. However, deviations from …

Transport and Anderson localization in disordered two-dimensional photonic lattices

T Schwartz, G Bartal, S Fishman, M Segev - Nature, 2007‏ - nature.com
One of the most interesting phenomena in solid-state physics is Anderson localization,
which predicts that an electron may become immobile when placed in a disordered lattice …