Topological phenomena in classical optical networks

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1708944114MaRDI QIDQ4646209zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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Publication date 11 January 2019

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03266

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Applications of graph theory to circuits and networks (94C15) Physical optics (78A10)

Abstract: We propose a scheme to realize a topological insulator with optical-passive elements, and analyze the effects of Kerr-nonlinearities in its topological behavior. In the linear regime, our design gives rise to an optical spectrum with topological features and where the bandwidths and bandgaps are dramatically broadened. The resulting edge modes cover a very wide frequency range. We relate this behavior to the fact that the effective Hamiltonian describing the system's amplitudes is long-range. We also develop a method to analyze the scheme in the presence of a Kerr medium. We assess robustness and stability of the topological features, and predict the presence of chiral squeezed fluctuations at the edges in some parameter regimes.

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