Transport of a topologically protected photonic waveguide on-chip

Sai Yan; Jingnan Yang; Shushu Shi; Zhanchun Zuo; Can Wang; Xiulai Xu

doi:10.1364/PRJ.485676

Photonics Research, Volume. 11, Issue 6, 1021(2023)

Transport of a topologically protected photonic waveguide on-chip

Sai Yan^1,2, Jingnan Yang³, Shushu Shi^1,2, Zhanchun Zuo¹, Can Wang^1,4,5, and Xiulai Xu^3、*

¹Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

²CAS Center for Excellence in Topological Quantum Computation and School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

³State Key Laboratory for Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

⁴Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan 523808, China

⁵e-mail: canwang@iphy.ac.cn

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Category: Nanophotonics and Photonic Crystals

Received: Jan. 16, 2023

Accepted: Apr. 9, 2023

Published Online: May. 29, 2023

The Author Email: Xiulai Xu (xlxu@pku.edu.cn)

DOI:10.1364/PRJ.485676

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