The City College of New York(纽约市立学院);The Australian National University(澳大利亚国立大学);University of Central Florida(中佛罗里达大学);Air Force Research Laboratory(空军研究实验室);City University of New York(纽约市立大学)
Yuma Kawaguchi, Daria Smirnova, Filipp Komissarenko, Daria Kafeeva, Svetlana Kiriushechkina, Jeffery Allen, Monica Allen, Andrea Alù, Alexander Khanikaev
Topological concepts have been at the forefront of materials research in recent years, driving a revolution in our understanding of the response of quantum materials and enabling new ways to manipulate light and sound in topological metamaterials. Topological defects and topological boundaries of different dimensions have driven a paradigm shift in photonics, where topological photonic crystals and metamaterials can be engineered to create one-way flow of energy robust to defects or to control such flows with synthetic degrees of freedom along topological domain walls. More recently, topological point singularities encoded into photonic structures have been shown to enable confinement of optical modes with the topologically nontrivial nature of the cavity imprinted into the vorticity of optical far fields. Here we demonstrate that the two latter concepts - domain wall and point singularities - can be unified into an even more powerful tool to enable arbitrarily shaped resonant cavities of any dimension supporting spectrally stable zero-energy modes. We experimentally confirm that such modes, whose existence is guaranteed by topological principles, allow an unprecedented degree of control over the optical field, which appears to have no phase modulation across space, can have any desirable radiation pattern, and enables spectral stability regardless of shape or length.
Real-space imaging reveals symmetry-selected nonlinear energy routing in a mechanical resonator
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology(东京农工大学);Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院上海微系统与信息技术研究所);Xi'an Jiaotong University(西安交通大学);University of Tokyo(东京大学)
Integration of 2D Materials in Radial van der Waals Heterostructure Metasurfaces
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München(慕尼黑大学);Politecnico di Milano(米兰理工大学);Universidade Federal de Pernambuco(伯南布哥联邦大学);IFN-CNR, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie(意大利国家研究委员会光子学与纳米技术研究所)