Title :
Photonic topological insulator-solitons
Author :
Lumer, Yaakov ; Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Plotnik, Yonatan ; Segev, Mordechai
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present photonic topological insulator-solitons: self-trapped wavepackets that form a self-localized edge states residing in the bulk of a photonic topological insulator (helical waveguide honeycomb lattice), while continuously rotating with a given directionality.
Keywords :
helical waveguides; optical lattices; optical rotation; optical solitons; optical waveguides; radiation pressure; topological insulators; helical waveguide honeycomb lattice; optical rotation; photonic topological insulator-solitons; self-localized edge states; self-trapped wavepackets; Lattices; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Solitons; Spinning; Topological insulators; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
