Experimental realization of photonic topological insulator in a uniaxial metacrystal waveguide

Abstract

Achieving robust transport has attracted much attention in both electronic and photonic systems. Time-reversal invariant photonic crystal can be employed to realize backscattering-immune chiral state, but the chiral bandgap is topologically trivial. Here, we designed and fabricated a metacrystal comprising non-resonant meta-atoms sandwiched between two metallic plates and the system exhibits topological phase transition as established by group classification. The nontrivial bandgap was confirmed by experimentally measured transmission spectra, calculated nonzero spin Chern number and Z2 index. Gapless spin-filtered edge states were demonstrated experimentally by measuring the magnitude and phase of the fields. The transpsort robustness of the edge states were also observed when an obstacle is introduced near the edge.

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