Realizing effective magnetic field for photons by controlling the phase of dynamic modulation

By K. Fang, Zongfu Yu, Shanhui Fan. Nature Photonics, 2012

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Topological Photonic Quasicrystals: Fractal Topological Spectrum and Protected Transport (2016, neutral): “or novel designs for optical isolators [29].”
Quantum simulation with interacting photons (2016, background): “An alternative approach to generating effective gauge fields via a dynamical modulation of the photon tunnelling rate at difference between the oscillation frequencies of the two adjacent resonators has been presented by Fang et al [76].”
Topological Phases of Sound and Light (2014, background): “In fact, the optomechanical route towards Chern insulators has major advantages over other proposals that have been put forward for photons and which one might try to translate to phonons: The optomechanical concept is more flexible than geometry-based approaches [17,23], since the properties can be”
Topological photonics (2018, methodology): “The synthetic magnetic fields are obtained following the theoretical proposal by Fang, Yu, and Fan (2012b), where the hopping phase is determined by the oscillation phase of the temporal modulation needed to compensate the frequency mismatch of neighboring sites.”
Synthetic dimensions in integrated photonics: From optical isolation to four-dimensional quantum Hall physics (2015, background): “In a similar direction, there has also been a theoretical proposal for engineering the 2D Harper-Hofstadter model in a spatially 2D photonic lattice by modulating the coupling constants between resonators harmonically in time to induce the appropriate Peierls phase factors [43].”
Optomechanical creation of magnetic fields for photons on a lattice (2015, background): “[22,31] proposed to create a photonic gauge field by electro-optically modulating the photon hopping rate Jij J cos Ωt φij) between neighboring cavities.”
Spatiotemporal light control with active metasurfaces (2019, background): “Nonreciprocity paves the way toward achieving other interesting physical phenomena, such as creating topologically protected opticalmodes (28) and breaking reciprocity for thermal emission and absorption (109) in photovoltaic applications.”