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Attosecond metrology sensitive to sub-optical-cycle electronic and structural dynamics is opening up new avenues for ultrafast spectroscopy of condensed matter. Using intense lightwaves to precisely control the extremely fast carrier…

In this paper, we present a comparative study of the tuning efficiency and sensitivity of guided resonances (GRs) in photonic crystal (PC) holed slabs based on periodic and aperiodically-ordered unit cells, aimed at assessing the…

The fundamental polarization singularities of monochromatic light are normally associated with invariance under coordinated rotations: symmetry operations that rotate the spatial dependence of an electromagnetic field by an angle $\theta$…

We show that it is possible to have a topological phase in two-dimensional quasicrystals without any magnetic field applied, but instead introducing an artificial gauge field via dynamic modulation. This topological quasicrystal exhibits…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Miguel A. Bandres , Mikael C. Rechtsman , Mordechai Segev

Complex systems are a proving ground for fundamental interactions between components and their collective emergent phenomena. Through intricate design, integrated photonics offers intriguing nonlinear interactions that create new patterns…

Non-Hermitian (NH) photonics has attracted considerable attention from researchers owing to exotic properties that originate from the parity-time ($\mathcal{PT}$) phase transition and exceptional points (EPs). To date, the $\mathcal{PT}$…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-06 Yuto Moritake , Masaya Notomi

We present simple yet extremely accurate coupled-wave models describing the formation of bound states in the continuum (BICs) in 1D-periodic guided-mode resonant gratings (GMRGs) consisting of a slab waveguide layer with a binary grating…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-12 Dmitry A. Bykov , Evgeni A. Bezus , Leonid L. Doskolovich

The polarizations of topological edge modes in the vicinity of optical Weyl points were numerically studied in chiral photonic crystals. We investigated two kinds of rotationally stacked woodpile structures in which planar rod arrays were…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-30 S. Takahashi , S. Oono , S. Iwamoto , Y. Hatsugai , Y. Arakawa

Waveguides composed of electromagnetically-coupled optical microcavities (coupled resonator optical waveguides or CROWs) can be used for light guiding, slowing and storage. In this paper, we present a two-dimensional analysis of finite-size…

We develop a theoretical framework for the quasi-low-dimensional confinement-induced resonances (CIRs) of particles with the arbitrary three-dimensional two-body interactions, based on the Huang-Yang pseudopotential and the treatment of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-10-29 Tao Shi , Su Yi

Harnessing topological effects offers a promising route to protect quantum states of light from imperfections, potentially enabling more robust platforms for quantum information processing. This capability is particularly relevant for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 A. Zecchetto , J. -R. Coudevylle , M. Morassi , A. Lemaître , M. I. Amanti , S. Ducci , F. Baboux

We show theoretically that, in the limit of weak dispersion, one-dimensional (1D) binary centrosymmetric photonic crystals can support topological edge modes in all photonic band gaps. By analyzing their bulk band topology, these "harmonic"…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Ka Hei Choi , C. W. Ling , K. F. Lee , Y. H. Tsang , Kin Hung Fung

Photonic molecules, i.e. artificial structures composed of coherently coupled optical cavities, are paradigmatic systems for investigating fundamental phenomena across photonics, quantum optics and topological physics. In recent years,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-06 Tiantong Li , Katia Gallo

Exceptional points (EPs) in non-Hermitian systems are singularities where both eigenvalues and eigenvectors coalesce. In scattering systems, EPs correspond to the merging of scattering states, leading to reflectionless (RL) behavior. A…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-13 Zi-Qi Wang , Yuan-Peng Peng , Yi-Pu Wang , J. Q. You

Photonic topological states have revolutionized our understanding on the propagation and scattering of light. Recent discovery of higher-order photonic topological insulators opens an emergent horizon for zero-dimensional topological corner…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Li Zhang , Yihao Yang , Pengfei Qin , Qiaolu Chen , Fei Gao , Erping Li , Jian-Hua Jiang , Baile Zhang , Hongsheng Chen

We have theoretically investigated surface magnetoplasmons (SMPs) in a yttrium-iron-garnet (YIG) sandwiched waveguide. The dispersion demonstated that this waveguide can support topological unidirectional SMPs. Based on unidirectional SMPs,…

Topological physics opens up a plethora of exciting phenomena allowing to engineer disorder-robust unidirectional flows of light. Recent advances in topological protection of electromagnetic waves suggest that even richer functionalities…

The central theme of cavity quantum electrodynamics is the coupling of a single optical mode with a single matter excitation, leading to a doublet of cavity polaritons which govern the optical properties of the coupled structure. Especially…

Time-periodic modulation of a static system is a powerful method for realizing robust unidirectional topological states. So far, all such realizations have been based on interactions among $s$ orbitals, without incorporating inter-orbital…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-15 Gayathry Rajeevan , Sebabrata Mukherjee

In terahertz (THz) photonics, there is an ongoing effort to develop thin, compact devices such as dielectric photonic crystal (PhC) slabs with desirable light matter interactions. However, previous works in THz PhC slabs are limited to…