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 …

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 …

[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 sound

X Zhang, M Xiao, Y Cheng, MH Lu… - Communications …, 2018 - nature.com
Recently, we witnessed a tremendous effort to conquer the realm of acoustics as a possible
playground to test with topologically protected sound wave propagation. In this article, we …

Topological valley photonics: physics and device applications

H Xue, Y Yang, B Zhang - Advanced Photonics Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Topological photonics has emerged as a promising field in photonics that is able to shape
the science and technology of light. As a significant degree of freedom, valley is introduced …

Topological metasurface: From passive toward active and beyond

JW You, Z Lan, Q Ma, Z Gao, Y Yang, F Gao… - Photonics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Metasurfaces are subwavelength structured thin films consisting of arrays of units that allow
the control of polarization, phase, and amplitude of light over a subwavelength thickness …

Valley photonic crystals

JW Liu, FL Shi, XT He, GJ Tang, WJ Chen… - … in Physics: X, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Topological photonics is an emerging field that attracts enormous interest for its novel ways
to engineer the flow of light. With the help of topological protection, the surface modes of …

Hybrid topological photonic crystals

Y Wang, HX Wang, L Liang, W Zhu, L Fan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Topologically protected photonic edge states offer unprecedented robust propagation of
photons that are promising for waveguiding, lasing, and quantum information processing …

Tracking valley topology with synthetic Weyl paths

X Fan, T Xia, H Qiu, Q Zhang, C Qiu - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Inspired by the newly emergent valleytronics, great interest has been attracted to the
topological valley transport in classical metacrystals. The presence of nontrivial domain-wall …

Elastic valley spin controlled chiral coupling in topological valley phononic crystals

J Zhao, C Yang, W Yuan, D Zhang, Y Long, Y Pan… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
Distinct from the phononic valley pseudospin, the real physical spin of elastic waves adds a
novel tool kit capable of envisaging the valley-spin physics of topological valley phononic …