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On-chip photonic networks have the potential to transmit and route information more efficiently than electronic circuits. Recently, a number of silicon-based optical devices including modulators, buffers, and wavelength converts have been…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jacob T. Robinson , Michal Lipson

In this paper, we discuss the possibility of achieving tunable topologically protected edge modes through the application of uniaxial deformation in an auxetic metamaterial. The proposed structure consists of a thin slab with oriented cuts…

Subwavelength plasmonic waveguides show the unique ability of strongly localizing (down to the nanoscale) and guiding light. These structures are intrinsically two-way optical communication channels, providing two opposite light propagation…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-13 Yannick Lefier , Thierry Grosjean

The manipulation of acoustic wave propagation in fluids has numerous applications, including some in everyday life. Acoustic technologies frequently develop in tandem with optics, using shared concepts such as waveguiding and metamedia. It…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Zhaoju Yang , Fei Gao , Xihang Shi , Xiao Lin , Zhen Gao , Yidong Chong , Baile Zhang

The fundamental guided electromagnetic dispersion characteristics in lossless dispersive metamaterial clad circular air hole waveguides are investigated. Two operating guided modes are found to exist: circular waveguide and surface plasmon…

Optics · Physics 2009-02-24 Ki Young Kim

Topological phononics enabling backscattering-immune transport is expected to improve the performance of electromechanical systems for classical and quantum information technologies. Nonetheless, most of the previous demonstrations utilized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-05 Daiki Hatanaka , Hiroaki Takeshita , Motoki Kataoka , Hajime Okamoto , Kenji Tsuruta , Hiroshi Yamaguchi

A phenomenological method is developed to consider elastic guided wave propagation in complex curved waveguides. The theory on guided wave propagation in hollow circular cylinders is used in order to verify the method. The results are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-09-03 E. Khajeh , L. Breon , J. L. Rose

Toroidal topologies and helicity are pervasive in nature and hold basic importance in scientific research. In particular, the interplay between these features gives rise to fascinating toroidal helical electromagnetic excitations. Here, we…

We consider the coupled electromagnetic waves propagating in a nonlinear coupler and in nonlinear waveguide array, which consists of alternating waveguides of positive and negative refraction indexes. The forward wave and backward wave…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2014-09-30 A. I. Maimistov , E. V. Kazantseva

Interferometers and beam splitters are fundamental building blocks for photonic neuromorphic and quantum computing machinery. In waveguide-based photonic integrated circuits, beam-splitting is achieved with directional couplers that rely on…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 Yandong Li , Minwoo Jung , Yang Yu , Yuchen Han , Baile Zhang , Gennady Shvets

Huygens' metawaveguides represent a transformative concept in photonic device engineering, enabling unprecedented control over light propagation. This study presents, for the first time, integrated Huygens'-based microring resonators and…

Recent advances in topologically robust waveguiding for electromagnetic systems have presented opportunities for improving practical photonic and microwave devices. To bring this rich area of physics within the reach of application, it is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Robert J. Davis , Dia'aaldin J. Bisharat , Daniel F. Sievenpiper

We theoretically investigate coupled gyration modes of magnetic solitons whose distances to the nearest neighbors are staggered. In a one-dimensional bipartite lattice, analogous to the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger model, there is a mid-gap…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-29 Gyungchoon Go , Ik-Sun Hong , Seo-Won Lee , Se Kwon Kim , Kyung-Jin Lee

We consider the electromagnetic waves propagating in the system of coupled waveguides. One of the system components is a standard waveguide fabricated from nonlinear medium having positive refraction and another component is a waveguide…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena V. Kazantseva , Andrei I. Maimistov , Sergei S. Ozhenko

We introduce continuous supersymmetric transformations to manipulate the modal content in systems of optical waveguides, providing a systematic method to design efficient and robust integrated devices such as tapered waveguides,…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-31 G. Queraltó , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart

The goal of this paper is to advance the development of wave-guiding subwavelength crystals by developing designs whose properties are stable with respect to imperfections in their construction. In particular, we make use of a locally…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-07 Habib Ammari , Bryn Davies , Erik Orvehed Hiltunen , Sanghyeon Yu

Recent studies have developed tunable topological elastic metamaterials to maximize performance in the presence of varying external conditions, adapt to changing operating requirements, and enable new functionalities such as a programmable…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-01-19 Patrick Dorin , Kon-Well Wang

Topologically protected waves in the linearly polarized Maxwell's equations with gyrotropic, magneto-optic media were studied a decade ago both computationally and experimentally. This paper develops a robust tight-binding model for this…

Optics · Physics 2020-02-19 Mark J. Ablowitz , Justin T. Cole

We investigate TE-wave propagation in a hollow waveguide with a graded dielectric layer, described using a hyperbolic tangent function. General formulae for the electric field components of the TE-waves, applicable to hollow waveguides with…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-11 M Dalarsson , S Nordebo

We present a new electromagnetic mode that forms at the interface between two planar surfaces laid side by side in free space, effectively guiding energy along an infinitesimal, one-dimensional line. It is shown that this mode occurs when…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Dia'aaldin J. Bisharat , Daniel F. Sievenpiper