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 …

Quantum walk comb in a fast gain laser

I Heckelmann, M Bertrand, A Dikopoltsev, M Beck… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Synthetic lattices in photonics enable the exploration of light states in new dimensions,
transcending phenomena common only to physical space. We propose and demonstrate a …

Observation of discrete-light temporal refraction by moving potentials with broken Galilean invariance

C Qin, H Ye, S Wang, L Zhao, M Liu, Y Li, X Hu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Refraction is a basic beam bending effect at two media's interface. While traditional studies
focus on stationary boundaries, moving boundaries or potentials could enable new laws of …

A perspective on synthetic dimensions in photonics

M Ehrhardt, S Weidemann… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of synthetic dimension has recently emerged as a versatile way to overcome
limitations in the number of effectively available dimensions by leveraging non‐spatial …

Observation of Generalized Dynamic Localizations in Arbitrary‐Wave Driven Synthetic Temporal Lattices

H Ye, S Wang, C Qin, L Zhao, X Hu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dynamic localization (DL) refers to a wavefunction confinement effect of electrons in periodic
lattices under an ac electric field driving. Recent studies have transplanted DLs from …

Characterizing localization effects in an ultracold disordered Fermi gas by diffusion analysis

S Barbosa, M Kiefer-Emmanouilidis, F Lang, J Koch… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
Disorder can fundamentally modify the transport properties of a system. A striking example is
Anderson localization, suppressing transport due to destructive interference of propagation …

Simulating topological materials with photonic synthetic dimensions in cavities

M Yang, JS Xu, CF Li, GC Guo - Quantum Frontiers, 2022 - Springer
Photons play essential roles in fundamental physics and practical technologies. They have
become one of the attractive informaiton carriers for quantum computation and quantum …

Robust Anderson transition in non-Hermitian photonic quasicrystals

S Longhi - Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Anderson localization, ie, the suppression of diffusion in lattices with a random or
incommensurate disorder, is a fragile interference phenomenon that is spoiled out in the …