Photonics of time-varying media

E Galiffi, R Tirole, S Yin, H Li, S Vezzoli… - Advanced …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Time-varying media have recently emerged as a new paradigm for wave manipulation, due
to the synergy between the discovery of highly nonlinear materials, such as epsilon-near …

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 complex-energy braiding of non-Hermitian bands

K Wang, A Dutt, CC Wojcik, S Fan - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Effects connected with the mathematical theory of knots emerge in many areas of
science, from physics, to biology. Recent theoretical work discovered that the braid group …

Integrated lithium niobate electro-optic modulators: when performance meets scalability

M Zhang, C Wang, P Kharel, D Zhu, M Lončar - Optica, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Electro-optic modulators (EOMs) convert signals from the electrical to the optical domain.
They are at the heart of optical communication, microwave signal processing, sensing, and …

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 …

Integrated photonics on thin-film lithium niobate

D Zhu, L Shao, M Yu, R Cheng, B Desiatov… - Advances in Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate (LN), an outstanding and versatile material, has influenced our daily life for
decades—from enabling high-speed optical communications that form the backbone of the …

Generating arbitrary topological windings of a non-Hermitian band

K Wang, A Dutt, KY Yang, CC Wojcik, J Vučković… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The nontrivial topological features in the energy band of non-Hermitian systems provide
promising pathways to achieve robust physical behaviors in classical or quantum open …

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 …

Roadmap on topological photonics

H Price, Y Chong, A Khanikaev… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Topological photonics seeks to control the behaviour of the light through the design of
protected topological modes in photonic structures. While this approach originated from …

Topological quantum matter in synthetic dimensions

T Ozawa, HM Price - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
In the field of quantum simulation of condensed matter phenomena by artificially
engineering the Hamiltonian of an atomic, molecular or optical system, the concept of …