Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; Corresponding author.
Hong-Yi Yuan
Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Hong-Yu Zhang
Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Wen Zhao
Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Nian-En Zhang
Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Yan-Ji Zheng
Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Sayed Elshahat
Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurements of Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Laboratory of Nanophotonics and Ultrafine Optoelectronic Systems, School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Yong-Chun Liu
State Key Laboratory of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics, Department of Physics, Frontier Science Center for Quantum Information, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
On-chip topological nanophotonic devices, which take photons as information carriers with topological protection during light propagation, have great application potential in the next generation photonic chips. The topological photonic states enable the nanophotonic devices to be robust and stable, immune to scattering even with imperfect structures. The development, opportunities and challenges of the on-chip topological nanophotonic devices have attracted great attention of scholars, and desired to be known. In this review, topological devices were introduced in the order of functionalities on an integrated photonic chip, i.e. topological light source, topological light waveguiding, topological light division and selection, topological light manipulation and topological light detecting. Finally, we gave outlooks for predicting and promoting the performances of on-chip topological nanophotonic devices from the angles of non-Hermitian systems, non-Abelian topology, metasurfaces, intelligent algorithms and multiple functional topological nanophotonic integration. This review provides rich knowledge about on-chip topological nanophotonic devices. The insights in this paper will spark inspiration and inspire new thinking for the realization of topological photonic chips.
