Topological One-Way Large-Area Waveguide States in Magnetic Photonic Crystals

We have theoretically and experimentally achieved large-area one-way transport by using heterostructures consisting of a domain of an ordinary photonic crystal sandwiched between two domains of magnetic photonic crystals. The nonmagnetized domain carries two orthogonal one-way waveguide states which...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2021-02, Vol.126 (6), p.067401
Main Authors: Wang, Mudi, Zhang, Ruo-Yang, Zhang, Lei, Wang, Dongyang, Guo, Qinghua, Zhang, Zhao-Qing, Chan, C T
Format: Article
Language:English
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Crystal defects
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Heterostructures
Photonic crystals
Waveguides
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Summary:We have theoretically and experimentally achieved large-area one-way transport by using heterostructures consisting of a domain of an ordinary photonic crystal sandwiched between two domains of magnetic photonic crystals. The nonmagnetized domain carries two orthogonal one-way waveguide states which have amplitude uniformly distributed over a large area. We show that such one-way waveguide states can be used to abruptly narrow the beam width of an extended state to concentrate energy, and the transport is robust against different kinds of defects and imperfections. They are also immune to the Anderson-type localization when large randomness is introduced.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.067401