Floquet Chern insulators of light
@article{He2019FloquetCI, title={Floquet Chern insulators of light}, author={Li He and Zachariah Addison and Jicheng Jin and Eugene J. Mele and Steven G. Johnson and Bo Zhen}, journal={Nature Communications}, year={2019}, volume={10} }
Achieving topologically-protected robust transport in optical systems has recently been of great interest. Most studied topological photonic structures can be understood by solving the eigenvalue problem of Maxwell’s equations for static linear systems. Here, we extend topological phases into dynamically driven systems and achieve a Floquet Chern insulator of light in nonlinear photonic crystals (PhCs). Specifically, we start by presenting the Floquet eigenvalue problem in driven two…
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