• DocumentCode
    689837
  • 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
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6834226