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 …

[HTML][HTML] A brief review of topological photonics in one, two, and three dimensions

Z Lan, MLN Chen, F Gao, S Zhang, EI Wei - Reviews in Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological photonics has attracted increasing attention in recent years due to the unique
opportunities it provides to manipulate light in a robust way immune to disorder and defects …

Topological metasurface: From passive toward active and beyond

JW You, Z Lan, Q Ma, Z Gao, Y Yang, F Gao… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces are subwavelength structured thin films consisting of arrays of units that allow
the control of polarization, phase, and amplitude of light over a subwavelength thickness …

Spin-dependent properties of optical modes guided by adiabatic trap** 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 …

Inverse design of photonic and phononic topological insulators: a review

Y Chen, Z Lan, Z Su, J Zhu - Nanophotonics, 2022 - degruyter.com
Photonic and phononic topological insulators (TIs) offer numerous opportunities for
manipulating light and sound with high efficiency and resiliency. On the other hand, inverse …

Antichiral surface states in time-reversal-invariant photonic semimetals

JW Liu, FL Shi, K Shen, XD Chen, K Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Besides chiral edge states, the hallmark of quantum Hall insulators, antichiral edge states
can exhibit unidirectional transport behavior but in topological semimetals. Although such …

Broadband wave attenuation and topological transport in novel periodic pile barriers

A Ni, Z Shi - Engineering Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
Topological insulator (TI) has received enormous attention in recent years due to its
intriguing dynamic characterizes of topologically protected wave transport and defect …

Nonlinear topological valley Hall edge states arising from type-II Dirac cones

H Zhong, S **a, Y Zhang, Y Li, D Song… - Advanced …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
A Dirac point is a linear band crossing point originally used to describe unusual transport
properties of materials like graphene. In recent years, there has been a surge of exploration …

Large-area quantum-spin-Hall waveguide states in a three-layer topological photonic crystal heterostructure

Z Lan, MLN Chen, JW You, WEI Sha - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Topological photonic edge states are conventionally formed at the interface between two
domains of topologically trivial and nontrivial photonic crystals. Recent works exploiting …

Dual-polarization two-dimensional valley photonic crystals

XT He, JW Liu, FL Shi, K Shen, WJ Chen… - Science China Physics …, 2022 - Springer
The recent realization of valley physics in photonic systems has enriched the topological
phases of light with protected edge modes and shown applications in designing high …