Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Topological hybrid silicon microlasers

  • Han Zhao,
  • Pei Miao,
  • Mohammad H. Teimourpour,
  • Simon Malzard,
  • Ramy El-Ganainy,
  • Henning Schomerus,
  • Liang Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03434-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Topological effects, first observed in condensed matter physics, are now also studied in optical systems, extending the scope to active topological devices. Here, Zhao et al. combine topological physics with non-Hermitian photonics, demonstrating a topological microlaser on a silicon platform.