Nontrivial band geometry in an optically active system

Jiahuan Ren; Qing Liao; Feng Li; Yiming Li; Olivier Bleu; Guillaume Malpuech; Jiannian Yao; Hongbing Fu; Dmitry Solnyshkov

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20845-2

Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Nontrivial band geometry in an optically active system

Jiahuan Ren,
Qing Liao,
Feng Li,
Yiming Li,
Olivier Bleu,
Guillaume Malpuech,
Jiannian Yao,
Hongbing Fu,
Dmitry Solnyshkov

Affiliations

Jiahuan Ren: Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University
Qing Liao: Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University
Feng Li: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Yiming Li: Key Laboratory for Physical Electronics and Devices of the Ministry of Education & Shaanxi Key Lab of Information Photonic Technique, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Olivier Bleu: Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont
Guillaume Malpuech: Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont
Jiannian Yao: Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Sciences, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, Tianjin University, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering
Hongbing Fu: Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry, Capital Normal University
Dmitry Solnyshkov: Institut Pascal, PHOTON-N2, Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20845-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Most work in topological photonics is performed in periodically structured systems. Here, the authors directly measure the nontrivial Berry curvature of the photonic modes of a birefringent continuous organic system exhibiting emergent optical activity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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