Nature Communications (Dec 2016)

Photonic Weyl point in a two-dimensional resonator lattice with a synthetic frequency dimension

  • Qian Lin,
  • Meng Xiao,
  • Luqi Yuan,
  • Shanhui Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13731
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Weyl points, point degeneracies surrounded by linear dispersions, are the 3-dimensional analogue of the Dirac points known from 2D materials. Here, Linet al. propose a scheme for realizing on-chip electromagnetic Weyl points by utilizing the concept of synthetic dimensions.