Communications Physics (Oct 2021)

Simulating graphene dynamics in synthetic space with photonic rings

  • Danying Yu,
  • Guangzhen Li,
  • Meng Xiao,
  • Da-Wei Wang,
  • Yong Wan,
  • Luqi Yuan,
  • Xianfeng Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00719-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Photonic honeycomb lattices have attracted attention for their interesting optical properties, but are complicated to reconfigure after fabrication. This work proposes to reduce this complexity to a 1D ring-resonator array by using only one real dimension and one synthetic dimension.