Photonics Insights, Volume. 4, Issue 2, R06(2025)

Comprehensive review on developments of synthetic dimensions Story Video

Danying Yu1、†, Wange Song2,3, Luojia Wang1, Rohith Srikanth4, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar4, Tao Chen5,6,7, Chenxi Huang5,6, Guangzhen Li1, Xin Qiao8, Xiaoxiong Wu1, Zhaohui Dong1, Yanyan He1, Meng Xiao9, Xianfeng Chen1,10, Avik Dutt4,11、*, Bryce Gadway5,6、*, and Luqi Yuan1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  • 2National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures, Key Laboratory of Intelligent Optical Sensing and Manipulation, Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
  • 3New Cornerstone Science Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • 4Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
  • 5Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
  • 6Department of Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
  • 7School of Physics, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, Xi’an, China
  • 8College of Physics and Electronics Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, China
  • 9Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro- and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education and School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
  • 10Collaborative Innovation Center of Light Manipulations and Applications, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China
  • 11National Quantum Laboratory (QLab) at Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
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    Danying Yu, Wange Song, Luojia Wang, Rohith Srikanth, Sashank Kaushik Sridhar, Tao Chen, Chenxi Huang, Guangzhen Li, Xin Qiao, Xiaoxiong Wu, Zhaohui Dong, Yanyan He, Meng Xiao, Xianfeng Chen, Avik Dutt, Bryce Gadway, Luqi Yuan, "Comprehensive review on developments of synthetic dimensions," Photon. Insights 4, R06 (2025)

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    Paper Information

    Category: Review Articles

    Received: Mar. 3, 2025

    Accepted: Jun. 6, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 1, 2025

    The Author Email: Avik Dutt (avikdutt@umd.edu), Bryce Gadway (bgadway@psu.edu), Luqi Yuan (yuanluqi@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/PI.2025.R06

    CSTR:32396.14.PI.2025.R06

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