Title :
Photonic Floquet Topological Insulators
Author :
Rechtsman, Mikael C. ; Zeuner, Julia M. ; Plotnik, Yonatan ; Lumer, Yaakov ; Segev, Mordechai ; Szameit, A.
Author_Institution :
Phys. Dept., Technion - Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel
Abstract :
We present the first experimental observation of a Floquet Topological Insulator in any physical system. We realize optical topologically-protected unidirectional edge states, without magnetic fields, using honeycomb photonic lattice of helical waveguides.
Keywords :
optical lattices; optical waveguides; topological insulators; helical waveguides; honeycomb photonic lattice; optical topologically-protected unidirectional edge states; photonic floquet topological insulators; Arrays; Lattices; Magnetic fields; Optical scattering; Optical waveguides; Photonics; Topological insulators;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
