Switching Light at the Interface Between Anomalous Floquet Topological Insulators

@article{Piccioli2019SwitchingLA,
  title={Switching Light at the Interface Between Anomalous Floquet Topological Insulators},
  author={Franccesco Piccioli and Lukas J. Maczewsky and Mark Kremer and Matthias Heinrich and Alexander Szameit},
  journal={2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)},
  year={2019},
  pages={1-2}
}
We study interface states at the boundary between two Anomalous Floquet Photonic Topological Insulators and show how their interactions with an edge mode can be used to switch it via the topological wave number. © 2019 The Author(s) 
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