Recent progress in photonic crystal devices and their applications: a review

RK Gangwar, AK Pathak, S Kumar - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The research field of photonic crystals (PhCs) remains active on a global scale. PhCs, which
are periodic optical nanostructures with the characteristics of excellent light field …

Plasmon-enhanced second harmonic generation of metal nanostructures

CC Zhang, JY Zhang, JR Feng, ST Liu, SJ Ding, L Ma… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
As the most common nonlinear optical process, second harmonic generation (SHG) has
important application value in the field of nanophotonics. With the rapid development of …

Broadband and fabrication-tolerant 3-dB couplers with topological valley edge modes

GJ Tang, XD Chen, L Sun, CH Guo, MY Li… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
dB couplers, which are commonly used in photonic integrated circuits for on-chip information
processing, precision measurement, and quantum computing, face challenges in achieving …

Realization of a full hierarchical topology in hexagonal bilayer acoustic crystals

S Wang, H Jia, X Yang, P Zhang, Y Yang… - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Recently, there has been significant research interest in higher-order topological states
within artificial lattices, primarily due to their potential for manipulating waves. In this study …

Topological polarization beam splitter in dual-polarization all-dielectric valley photonic crystals

XT He, CH Guo, GJ Tang, MY Li, XD Chen… - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
The recent realization of all-dielectric valley photonic crystals (VPCs) in nanoscale not only
provides a standard platform to explore many topological phases of light with protected edge …

Compact topological polarization beam splitter based on all-dielectric fishnet photonic crystals

Y Su, M Qin, M Ouyang, L Lei, L He, T Wang, T Yu - Optics Letters, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Conventional polarization beam splitters (PBSs) suffer energy loss and signal distortion due
to backscattering caused by disturbances. Topological photonic crystals provide …

Quantifying robustness against sharp bending in an integrated topological interface of valley photonic crystals

CH Guo, GJ Tang, MY Li, WJ Chen, XT He… - Nanophotonics, 2024 - degruyter.com
Sharp-bending waveguide is a key element for ultra-compact and densely integrated
photonic devices, which is promising to enlarge the capability of modern information …

Dual-polarization helical interface states in inverse-designed photonic crystals with glide symmetry

Y Chen, HX Wang, Z Lan, Z Su - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Photonic analogs of topological crystalline insulators (PTCIs) that host pseudospin-locked
unidirectional helical interface states have promising applications for develo** novel …

Observation of Dual‐Polarization Topological Photonic States at Optical Frequencies

J Hu, Y Wang, J Niu, C Wang, T Liu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Topological protection in photonics offers new prospects for confining and guiding light
waves. Up to now, most reported works on topological photonics have focused on the …

Second Chern crystals with inherently non-trivial topology

XD Chen, FL Shi, JW Liu, K Shen, XT He… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Chern insulators have been generalized to many classical wave systems and thereby lead
to many potential applications such as robust waveguides, quantum computation and high …