Topological photonics

T Ozawa, HM Price, A Amo, N Goldman, M Hafezi… - Reviews of Modern …, 2019 - APS
Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and
topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing …

Trends in quantum nanophotonics

L Huang, L Xu, M Woolley… - Advanced Quantum …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, the nexus of nanophotonics and quantum science is considered. This nexus
offers a wealth of applications and novel fundamental effects. Such an interdisciplinary …

[HTML][HTML] Observation of edge solitons in photonic graphene

Z Zhang, R Wang, Y Zhang, YV Kartashov, F Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Edge states emerge in diverse areas of science, offering promising opportunities for the
development of future electronic or optoelectronic devices, sound and light propagation …

Modulational instability and solitary waves in polariton topological insulators

YV Kartashov, DV Skryabin - Optica, 2016 - opg.optica.org
Optical microcavities supporting exciton–polariton quasi-particles offer one of the most
powerful platforms for the investigation of the rapidly developing area of topological …

Linear and nonlinear traveling edge waves in optical honeycomb lattices

MJ Ablowitz, CW Curtis, YP Ma - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
Traveling unidirectional localized edge states in optical honeycomb lattices are analytically
constructed. They are found in honeycomb arrays of helical waveguides designed to induce …

Lieb polariton topological insulators

C Li, F Ye, X Chen, YV Kartashov, A Ferrando, L Torner… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We predict that the interplay between the spin-orbit coupling, stemming from the transverse
electric–transverse magnetic energy splitting, and the Zeeman effect in semiconductor …

Gradient catastrophe of nonlinear photonic valley-Hall edge pulses

DA Smirnova, LA Smirnov, EO Smolina… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
We derive nonlinear wave equations describing the propagation of slowly varying wave
packets formed by topological valley-Hall edge states. We show that edge pulses break up …

Topological edge solitons and their stability in a nonlinear Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model

YP Ma, H Susanto - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study continuations of topological edge states in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model with on-
site cubic (Kerr) nonlinearity, which is a 1D nonlinear photonic topological insulator (TI) …

Traveling edge states in massive Dirac equations along slowly varying edges

P Hu, P Xie, Y Zhu - IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Topologically protected wave motion has attracted considerable research interest due to its
chirality and potential applications in many applied fields. We construct quasi-traveling wave …

Strong transmission and reflection of edge modes in bounded photonic graphene

MJ Ablowitz, YP Ma - Optics letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
The propagation of linear and nonlinear edge modes in bounded photonic honeycomb
lattices formed by an array of rapidly varying helical waveguides is studied. These edge …