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 …

Applications of topological photonics in integrated photonic devices

Y Wu, C Li, X Hu, Y Ao, Y Zhao… - Advanced Optical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Topological photonics is an emerging field of research, which is inspired by the discovery of
topological insulators. The introduction of topology endows traditional photonic systems with …

Higher-order quantum spin Hall effect in a photonic crystal

B **e, G Su, HF Wang, F Liu, L Hu, SY Yu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The quantum spin Hall effect lays the foundation for the topologically protected manipulation
of waves, but is restricted to one-dimensional-lower boundaries of systems and hence limits …

Valley photonic crystals for control of spin and topology

JW Dong, XD Chen, H Zhu, Y Wang, X Zhang - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Photonic crystals offer unprecedented opportunity for light manipulation and applications in
optical communication and sensing,,,. Exploration of topology in photonic crystals and …

Valley-contrasting physics in all-dielectric photonic crystals: Orbital angular momentum and topological propagation

XD Chen, FL Zhao, M Chen, JW Dong - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
The valley has been exploited as a binary degree of freedom to realize valley-selective Hall
transport and circular dichroism in two-dimensional layered materials, in which valley …

Probing topological protection using a designer surface plasmon structure

F Gao, Z Gao, X Shi, Z Yang, X Lin, H Xu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Topological photonic states, inspired by robust chiral edge states in topological insulators,
have recently been demonstrated in a few photonic systems, including an array of coupled …

Slow light waveguides in topological valley photonic crystals

H Yoshimi, T Yamaguchi, Y Ota, Y Arakawa… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Valley photonic crystals (VPhCs) are an attractive platform for the implementation of
topologically protected optical waveguides in photonic integrated circuits (PICs). The …

Photonic Weyl degeneracies in magnetized plasma

W Gao, B Yang, M Lawrence, F Fang, B Béri… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Weyl particles are elusive relativistic fermionic particles with vanishing mass. While not
having been found as an elementary particle, they are found to emerge in solid-state …

Experimental demonstration of topological slow light waveguides in valley photonic crystals

H Yoshimi, T Yamaguchi, R Katsumi, Y Ota… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally demonstrate topological slow light waveguides in valley photonic crystals
(VPhCs). We employed a bearded interface formed between two topologically-distinct …

Electromagnetic‐Dual Metasurfaces for Topological States along a 1D Interface

DJ Bisharat, DF Sievenpiper - Laser & Photonics Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The discovery of topological insulators was rapidly followed by the advent of their photonic
analogues, motivated by the prospect of backscattering‐immune light propagation. So far …