• DocumentCode
    1770332
  • Title

    Bulk optical measurement of topological numbers in photonic lattices with a non-Hermitian system

  • Author

    Zeuner, Julia M. ; Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Lumer, Yaakov ; Plotnik, Yonatan ; Nolte, S. ; Segev, Mordechai ; Szameit, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Appl. Phys., Friedrich Schiller Univ. Jena, Jena, Germany
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    Topological insulators have been recently extended to photonics; however, the measurement of their topological invariant has been limited to probing edge states, an indirect measure. Here we optically measure a topological invariant using only bulk information.
  • Keywords
    optical lattices; optical variables measurement; topological insulators; bulk information; bulk optical measurement; edge states; nonHermitian system; photonic lattices; topological insulators; topological invariant; topological numbers; Lattices; Optical surface waves; Optical variables measurement; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Waveguide lasers;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988863