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 …

Two-dimensional topological photonics

AB Khanikaev, G Shvets - Nature photonics, 2017 - nature.com
Originating from the studies of two-dimensional condensed-matter states, the concept of
topological order has recently been expanded to other fields of physics and engineering …

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 …

Terahertz topological photonics for on-chip communication

Y Yang, Y Yamagami, X Yu, P Pitchappa, J Webber… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The realization of integrated, low-cost and efficient solutions for high-speed, on-chip
communication requires terahertz-frequency waveguides and has great potential for …

Photonic quantum information processing: a review

F Flamini, N Spagnolo, F Sciarrino - Reports on Progress in …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Photonic quantum technologies represent a promising platform for several applications,
ranging from long-distance communications to the simulation of complex phenomena …

Topological metamaterials

X Ni, S Yves, A Krasnok, A Alu - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
The topological properties of an object, associated with an integer called the topological
invariant, are global features that cannot change continuously but only through abrupt …

Topological phononic metamaterials

W Zhu, W Deng, Y Liu, J Lu, HX Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The concept of topological energy bands and their manifestations have been demonstrated
in condensed matter systems as a fantastic paradigm toward unprecedented physical …

Active topological photonics

Y Ota, K Takata, T Ozawa, A Amo, Z Jia, B Kante… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Topological photonics emerged as a novel route to engineer the flow of light. Topologically
protected photonic edge modes, which are supported at the perimeters of topologically …

Visualization of a unidirectional electromagnetic waveguide using topological photonic crystals made of dielectric materials

Y Yang, YF Xu, T Xu, HX Wang, JH Jiang, X Hu… - Physical review …, 2018 - APS
We demonstrate experimentally that a photonic crystal made of Al 2 O 3 cylinders exhibits
topological time-reversal symmetric electromagnetic propagation, similar to the quantum …

Realization of a three-dimensional photonic topological insulator

Y Yang, Z Gao, H Xue, L Zhang, M He, Z Yang, R Singh… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Confining photons in a finite volume is highly desirable in modern photonic devices, such as
waveguides, lasers and cavities. Decades ago, this motivated the study and application of …