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Topological one-way fiber of second Chern number.

ABSTRACT: One-way waveguides have been discovered as topological edge states in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals. Here, we design one-way fiber modes in a 3D magnetic Weyl photonic crystal realizable at microwave frequencies. We first obtain a 3D Chern crystal with a non-zero first Chern number by annihilating the Weyl points through supercell modulation. When the modulation becomes helixes, one-way modes develop along the winding axis, with the number of modes determined by the spatial frequency of the helix. These single-polarization single-mode and multi-mode one-way fibers, having nearly identical group and phase velocities, are topologically-protected by the second Chern number in the 4D parameter space of the 3D wavevectors plus the winding angle of the helix. This work suggests a unique way to utilize high-dimensional topological physics using topological defects.

SUBMITTER: Lu L

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6300610 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

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Topological one-way fiber of second Chern number.

Lu Ling L Gao Haozhe H Wang Zhong Z

Nature communications 20181219 1

One-way waveguides have been discovered as topological edge states in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals. Here, we design one-way fiber modes in a 3D magnetic Weyl photonic crystal realizable at microwave frequencies. We first obtain a 3D Chern crystal with a non-zero first Chern number by annihilating the Weyl points through supercell modulation. When the modulation becomes helixes, one-way modes develop along the winding axis, with the number of modes determined by the spatial frequency of ...[more]

PMID: 30568189

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