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 …

Highlighting photonics: looking into the next decade

Z Chen, M Segev - ELight, 2021 - Springer
Let there be light–to change the world we want to be! Over the past several decades, and
ever since the birth of the first laser, mankind has witnessed the development of the science …

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 …

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 …

Observation of strong backscattering in valley-Hall photonic topological interface modes

CA Rosiek, G Arregui, A Vladimirova, M Albrechtsen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The unique properties of light underpin the visions of photonic quantum technologies,
optical interconnects and a wide range of novel sensors, but a key limiting factor today is …

Electrically pumped topological laser with valley edge modes

Y Zeng, U Chattopadhyay, B Zhu, B Qiang, J Li, Y **… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Quantum cascade lasers are compact, electrically pumped light sources in the
technologically important mid-infrared and terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum …

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 …

Nonlocal meta-lens with Huygens' bound states in the continuum

J Yao, F Lai, Y Fan, Y Wang, SH Huang, B Leng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Meta-lenses composed of artificial meta-atoms have stimulated substantial interest due to
their compact and flexible wavefront sha** capabilities, outperforming bulk optical …