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  • Title: Realization of Anomalous Floquet Insulators in Strongly Coupled Nanophotonic Lattices.
    Author: Afzal S, Zimmerling TJ, Ren Y, Perron D, Van V.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2020 Jun 26; 124(25):253601. PubMed ID: 32639778.
    Abstract:
    We experimentally realized Floquet topological photonic insulators using a square lattice of direct-coupled octagonal resonators. Unlike previously reported topological insulator systems based on microring lattices, the nontrivial topological behaviors of our system arise directly from the periodic evolution of light around each octagon to emulate a periodically driven system. By exploiting asynchronism in the evanescent coupling between adjacent octagonal resonators, we could achieve strong and asymmetric couplings in each unit cell, which are necessary for realizing anomalous Floquet insulator behaviors. Direct imaging of scattered light from fabricated samples confirmed the existence of chiral edge states as predicted by the topological phase map of the lattice. In addition, by exploiting the frequency dispersion of the coupling coefficients, we could also observe topological phase changes of the lattice from a normal insulator to Chern and Floquet insulators. Our lattice thus provides a versatile nanophotonic system for investigating 2D Floquet topological insulators.
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