Nonlinear Control of Electromagnetic Topological Edge States

Topological photonics has emerged recently as a smart approach for realizing robust optical circuitry, and the study of nonlinear effects is expected to open the door for tunability of photonic topological states. Here we realize experimentally nonlinearity-induced spectral tuning of electromagnetic...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2018-10, Vol.121 (16), p.163901-163901, Article 163901
Main Authors: Dobrykh, D A, Yulin, A V, Slobozhanyuk, A P, Poddubny, A N, Kivshar, Yu S
Format: Article
Language:English
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Circuits
Nonlinear control
Nonlinearity
Optical pumping
Photonics
Resonators
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Summary:Topological photonics has emerged recently as a smart approach for realizing robust optical circuitry, and the study of nonlinear effects is expected to open the door for tunability of photonic topological states. Here we realize experimentally nonlinearity-induced spectral tuning of electromagnetic topological edge states in arrays of coupled nonlinear resonators in the pump-probe regime. When nonlinearity is weak, we observe that the frequencies of the resonators exhibit spectral shifts concentrated mainly at the edge mode and affecting only weakly the bulk modes. For a strong pumping, we describe several scenarios of the transformation of the edge states and their hybridization with bulk modes, and also predict a parametrically driven transition from topological stationary to unstable dynamic regimes.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.121.163901