Scheme to Achieve Silicon Topological Photonics

Abstract

We derive in the present work topological photonic states purely based on silicon, a conventional dielectric material, by deforming a honeycomb lattice of silicon cylinders into a triangular lattice of cylinder hexagons. The photonic topology is associated with a pseudo time reversal (TR) symmetry constituted by the TR symmetry respected in general by the Maxwell equations and the $C_6$ crystal symmetry upon design, which renders the Kramers doubling in the present photonic system with the role of pseudo spin played by the circular polarization of magnetic field in the transverse magnetic mode. We solve Maxwell equations, and demonstrate new photonic topology by revealing pseudo spin-resolved Berry curvatures of photonic bands and helical edge states characterized by Poynting vectors.

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