Nature Communications (Nov 2018)

Topological LC-circuits based on microstrips and observation of electromagnetic modes with orbital angular momentum

  • Yuan Li,
  • Yong Sun,
  • Weiwei Zhu,
  • Zhiwei Guo,
  • Jun Jiang,
  • Toshikaze Kariyado,
  • Hong Chen,
  • Xiao Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07084-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Both photonic topological structures and optical angular momentum have been investigated over the last few years. Here, the authors propose and demonstrate that a honeycomb LC circuit can support topological photonic states with band inversion between modes that carry orbital angular momentum.