Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point

M Parto, YGN Liu, B Bahari, M Khajavikhan… - …, 2020 - degruyter.com
In the past few years, concepts from non-Hermitian (NH) physics, originally developed within
the context of quantum field theories, have been successfully deployed over a wide range of …

[HTML][HTML] Roadmap on photonic metasurfaces

SA Schulz, R Oulton, M Kenney, A Alù, I Staude… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Here we present a roadmap on Photonic metasurfaces. This document consists of a number
of perspective articles on different applications, challenge areas or technologies underlying …

Complex skin modes in non-Hermitian coupled laser arrays

YGN Liu, Y Wei, O Hemmatyar, GG Pyrialakos… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
From biological ecosystems to spin glasses, connectivity plays a crucial role in determining
the function, dynamics, and resiliency of a network. In the realm of non-Hermitian physics …

Parity–time symmetry synthetic lasers: Physics and devices

B Qi, HZ Chen, L Ge, P Berini… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The invention of the laser has revolutionized modern science and engineering as well as
our daily lives. Recently, a new class of lasers based on concepts borrowed from parity–time …

Room temperature electrically pumped topological insulator lasers

JH Choi, WE Hayenga, YGN Liu, M Parto… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Topological insulator lasers (TILs) are a recently introduced family of lasing arrays in which
phase locking is achieved through synthetic gauge fields. These single frequency light …

Gain-induced topological response via tailored long-range interactions

YGN Liu, PS Jung, M Parto, DN Christodoulides… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The ability to tailor the hop** interactions between the constituent elements of a physical
system could enable the observation of unusual phenomena that are otherwise inaccessible …

Experimental realization of sensitivity enhancement and suppression with exceptional surfaces

GQ Qin, RR **e, H Zhang, YQ Hu… - Laser & Photonics …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
By preparing a sensor system around isolated exceptional points, one can obtain a great
enhancement of the sensitivity benefiting from the non‐Hermiticity. However, this comes at …

Direct generation of tunable orbital angular momentum beams in microring lasers with broadband exceptional points

WE Hayenga, M Parto, J Ren, FO Wu… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Non-Hermitian exceptional points (EPs) represent a special type of degeneracy where not
only the eigenvalues coalesce, but also the eigenstates tend to collapse on each other …

Symmetry-protected scattering in non-Hermitian linear systems

L **, Z Song - Chinese Physics Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Symmetry plays fundamental role in physics and the nature of symmetry changes in non-
Hermitian physics. Here the symmetry-protected scattering in non-Hermitian linear systems …

High-order spectral singularity

HS Xu, LC **e, L ** - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Exceptional point and spectral singularity are two types of singularity that are unique to non-
Hermitian systems. Here, we report the high-order spectral singularity as a high-order pole …