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20202026
most citedProbing band topology using modulational instability

29 citations · 66 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

physics.optics2026

Theory of deeply subwavelength electromagnetic structuring of semiconductors due to thermal-ionization instability

I. V. Oladyshkin, D. I. Kulshin, E. O. Smolina

We develop a theory of ionization-assisted instability that governs the reflection of intense electromagnetic pulses from a semiconductor surface. Local overheating of the material…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

Data-driven model reconstruction for nonlinear wave dynamics

Ekaterina Smolina, Lev Smirnov, Daniel Leykam +2

The use of machine learning to predict wave dynamics is a topic of growing interest, but commonly-used deep learning approaches suffer from a lack of interpretability of the traine…

physics.optics2023★ 6 cited

Identifying topology of leaky photonic lattices with machine learning

Ekaterina O. Smolina, Lev A. Smirnov, Daniel Leykam +2

We show how machine learning techniques can be applied for the classification of topological phases in leaky photonic lattices using limited measurement data. We propose an approac…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Self-steepening-induced stabilization of nonlinear edge waves at photonic valley-Hall interfaces

Ekaterina O. Smolina, Lev A. Smirnov, Daniel Leykam +1

Localized nonlinear modes at valley-Hall interfaces in staggered photonic graphene can be described in the long-wavelength limit by a nonlinear Dirac-like model including spatial d…

physics.optics2021★ 6 cited

Nonlinear signatures of Floquet band topology

Aleksandra Maluckov, Ekaterina Smolina, Daniel Leykam +3

We study how the nonlinear propagation dynamics of bulk states may be used to distinguish topological phases of slowly-driven Floquet lattices. First, we show how instabilities of…

physics.optics2021★ 21 cited

Gradient catastrophe of nonlinear photonic valley-Hall edge pulses

Daria A. Smirnova, Lev A. Smirnov, Ekaterina O. Smolina +2

We derive nonlinear wave equations describing the propagation of slowly-varying wavepackets formed by topological valley-Hall edge states. We show that edge pulses break up even in…

physics.optics2020★ 29 cited

Probing band topology using modulational instability

Daniel Leykam, Ekaterina Smolina, Aleksandra Maluckov +2

We analyze the modulational instability of nonlinear Bloch waves in topological photonic lattices. In the initial phase of the instability development captured by the linear stabil…