• DocumentCode
    732856
  • Title

    Photonic topological edge modes without an edge

  • Author

    Katan, Yaniv Tenenbaum ; Lumer, Yaakov ; Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Plotnik, Yonatan ; Segev, Mordechai

  • Author_Institution
    Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present photonic topological modes without a topological edge: topologically protected states which reside at a non-topological interface in the bulk of a photonic topological insulator (a honeycomb lattice of helical waveguides).
  • Keywords
    optical lattices; optical waveguides; topological insulators; helical waveguides; honeycomb lattice; nontopological interface; photonic topological edge modes; photonic topological insulator; topologically protected states; Approximation methods; Arrays; Lattices; Optical waveguides; Phase modulation; Photonics; Topological insulators;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183293