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 …

Recent advances in 2D, 3D and higher-order topological photonics

M Kim, Z Jacob, J Rho - Light: Science & Applications, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past decade, topology has emerged as a major branch in broad areas of physics,
from atomic lattices to condensed matter. In particular, topology has received significant …

Phototunable chip-scale topological photonics: 160 Gbps waveguide and demultiplexer for THz 6G communication

A Kumar, M Gupta, P Pitchappa, N Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The revolutionary 5G cellular systems represent a breakthrough in the communication
network design to provide a single platform for enabling enhanced broadband …

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 …

Nonlinear topological photonics

D Smirnova, D Leykam, Y Chong… - Applied Physics Reviews, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Rapidly growing demands for fast information processing have launched a race for creating
compact and highly efficient optical devices that can reliably transmit signals without losses …

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 …

Robust topologically protected transport in photonic crystals at telecommunication wavelengths

MI Shalaev, W Walasik, A Tsukernik, Y Xu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Photonic topological insulators offer the possibility to eliminate backscattering losses and
improve the efficiency of optical communication systems. Despite considerable efforts, a …

[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 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 …

Photonic crystal nanocavity based on a topological corner state

Y Ota, F Liu, R Katsumi, K Watanabe, K Wakabayashi… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Topological photonics has emerged as a novel approach to engineering the flow of light and
provides unprecedented means for develo** diverse photonic elements, including robust …