Nature Communications (Jan 2017)

Experimental observation of anomalous topological edge modes in a slowly driven photonic lattice

  • Sebabrata Mukherjee,
  • Alexander Spracklen,
  • Manuel Valiente,
  • Erika Andersson,
  • Patrik Öhberg,
  • Nathan Goldman,
  • Robert R. Thomson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13918
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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A periodically driven system may show a novel type of topologically protected edge modes that has no static analogue. Here, Mukherjeeet al. report the observation of such anomalous chiral edge modes in an ultrafast-laser-inscribed slowly-driven photonic lattice.