Pseudospin-valley coupled edge states in a photonic topological insulator
arXiv:1804.08707 · doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05408-w
Abstract
Pseudo-spin and valley degrees of freedom (DOFs) engineered in photonic analogues of topological insulators (TI) provide potential approaches to optical encoding and robust signal transport. Here we observe a ballistic edge state whose spin-valley indices are locked to the direction of propagation along the interface between a valley photonic crystal and a metacrystal emulating the quantum spin Hall effect. We demonstrate the inhibition of inter-valley scattering at a Y-junction formed at the interfaces between photonic TIs carrying different spin-valley Chern numbers. These results open up the possibility of using the valley DOF to control the flow of optical signals in 2D structures.
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